| 词汇 | high on off the hog |
| 词源 | high on (off ) the hog. Well aware that the best cuts of meat on a hog—the hams, pork chops, bacon, tenderloin, and spare ribs—are high up on a hog’s sides, American southerners used the expression eating high on the hog, “good eating,” as opposed to eating low on the hog—eating the pig’s feet, knuckles, jowls, and sow belly, well known today as “soul food.” By extension, living high on (or off ) the hog came to mean living prosperously. |
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