英语词汇high hat的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

high hat. Jack Conway, a former baseball player and vaudev- illian who became editor of the show business newspaper Va- riety, coined the expression high hat, for “a snob,” in 1924. It suggests an affected rich or nouveau riche man in a high silk hat and tails strolling about town with his nose almost as high as his hat, and it gave birth to the expression to high hat, to snub or act patronizingly. The prolific Conway—Walter Winchell called him “my tutor of slanguage”—died in 1928. Belly laugh, pushover, to click (succeed), baloney (bunk), S.A. (sex appeal), payoff, and palooka are among his other memo- rable coinages.

词汇	high hat
词源	high hat. Jack Conway, a former baseball player and vaudev- illian who became editor of the show business newspaper Va- riety, coined the expression high hat, for “a snob,” in 1924. It suggests an affected rich or nouveau riche man in a high silk hat and tails strolling about town with his nose almost as high as his hat, and it gave birth to the expression to high hat, to snub or act patronizingly. The prolific Conway—Walter Winchell called him “my tutor of slanguage”—died in 1928. Belly laugh, pushover, to click (succeed), baloney (bunk), S.A. (sex appeal), payoff, and palooka are among his other memo- rable coinages.
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