英语词汇honey hole的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	honey hole
词源	honey hole. A huge hole dug outside coal towns to hold the excrement from the town’s privies. During the Great Depres- sion one group of miners held a mock-burial in a “honey hole” of President Herbert Hoover, on whom they blamed the bad times. A wooden slab prominently displayed his mock-epitaph: HERE LIES HOOVER, DAMN HIS SOUL, BURIED IN A HONEY HOLE. LET HIM LIE HERE TILL THE END, POOR MAN’S ENEMY, RICH MAN’S FRIEND.
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