英语词汇pay through the nose的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

pay through the nose. Gamblers in the 17th century coined the expression to bleed a victim. “They will purposely lose some small sum at first, that they may engage him more freely to bleed as they call it,” a contemporary writer on cardplaying noted. He also observed that these same gamblers would “al- ways fix half a score packs of cards” beforehand whenever they intended to bleed a dupe. Once the “coll” had paid through the nose, lost all his blood through the nose, he was “bled white,” weak and helpless, until he had nothing left to lose. These last expressions arose later but they clearly derive from the gam- bling term, which was used to describe extortion or blackmail at about the same time. The bloodletting that physicians and barbers commonly used to treat so many diverse illnesses cer- tainly suggested the expression to the gamblers. Bleeding pa- tients not only made them pale, weak, and helpless but often killed them, as it did Lord Byron.

词汇	pay through the nose
词源	pay through the nose. Gamblers in the 17th century coined the expression to bleed a victim. “They will purposely lose some small sum at first, that they may engage him more freely to bleed as they call it,” a contemporary writer on cardplaying noted. He also observed that these same gamblers would “al- ways fix half a score packs of cards” beforehand whenever they intended to bleed a dupe. Once the “coll” had paid through the nose, lost all his blood through the nose, he was “bled white,” weak and helpless, until he had nothing left to lose. These last expressions arose later but they clearly derive from the gam- bling term, which was used to describe extortion or blackmail at about the same time. The bloodletting that physicians and barbers commonly used to treat so many diverse illnesses cer- tainly suggested the expression to the gamblers. Bleeding pa- tients not only made them pale, weak, and helpless but often killed them, as it did Lord Byron.
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