英语词汇hit the nail on the head的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

hit the nail on the head. Although the allusion is obvious here, no one knows who invented the expression. John Stan- bridge’s Vulgaria (1520) has “Thou hyttest the nayle on the head” and English poet John Skelton used it a little later, but the phrase was probably proverbial before then. One suggestion is that it derives from the Roman saying acu rem tangere, “you have touched the thing with a needle,” which refers to the cus- tom of probing sores. To be off the nail was slang over a century ago for being slightly drunk.

词汇	hit the nail on the head
词源	hit the nail on the head. Although the allusion is obvious here, no one knows who invented the expression. John Stan- bridge’s Vulgaria (1520) has “Thou hyttest the nayle on the head” and English poet John Skelton used it a little later, but the phrase was probably proverbial before then. One suggestion is that it derives from the Roman saying acu rem tangere, “you have touched the thing with a needle,” which refers to the cus- tom of probing sores. To be off the nail was slang over a century ago for being slightly drunk.
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