| 词汇 | peach on someone |
| 词源 | peach on someone. Once common in the jargon of crimi- nals, to peach on someone means to inform or “rat” on him. The word is not related to the fruit, deriving instead from an obso- lete English word appeach, “to accuse.” The expression has been used at least since Shakespeare’s time. |
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