| 词汇 | the ghost walks |
| 词源 | the ghost walks. It’s payday and all the salaries will be paid; said to have originally been a 19th-century British theatrical expression. A company doing Hamlet hadn’t been paid for a month or so. When during a performance Hamlet exclaimed “Perchance ’twill walk again,” the actor playing the ghost an- swered from the wings, “No, I’ll be damned if the ghost walks any more until our salaries are paid.” That night the salaries were finally paid. |
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