英语词汇panhandler的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	panhandler
词源	panhandler. Panhandler is said to derive from the Spanish pan, meaning both bread and money ( just as the American slang bread does today). But though it is supposed to have been first recorded in 1890, the earliest quotation I am able to find for it is in humorist George Ade’s Doc Horne (1899): “He had ‘sized’ the hustler for a ‘panhandler’ from the very start.” How- ever, the fact that Ade put the word in quotation marks proba- bly indicates that he did not invent it, as has often been claimed. See tightwad; gladhander.
随便看	don’t let money burn a hole in your pocket don’t like the cut of his jib don’t look a gift horse in the mouth don’t look back something might be gaining on you don’t look now don’t make two bites of a cherry don’t play games with me don’t poke one-s nose into it don’t put off till tomorrow what you can do today don’t say it if you can grunt it don’t sell the steak sell the sizzle don’t stick your neck out don’t take any wooden nickels don’t that take the rag off the bush don’t want to pick up that snake now don’t wash your dirty linen in public don’t write it if you can say it doodlebug doo-doo doofus doolally dooley doolittle do’d it doorbuster doornail

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