英语词汇pell-mell的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	pell-mell
词源	pell-mell. Pall-mall was an early 16th-century British game “wherein a round box ball is struck with a mallet through a high arch of iron, which he that can do it with the fewest blows, or at the number agreed upon, wins.” Apparently pall-mall players thrashed about trying to strike the ball and tripping each other up, this resulting in the now obsolete game giving us the word pell-mell, meaning “headlong, in reckless confusion.”
随便看	take a long walk on a short pier take a powder take a stab at it take a walk up ladder lane and down hawser street take down a peg take it easy take it on the chin take lying down taken aback take one-s wife to paris take out take the bull by the horns take the cake take the long count take the rag off the bush take the scales from your eyes take the stone out of my shoe take the waters take the wind out of one-s sails take to journalism and strong drink take to the cleaners take to the hustings take to the tall timber take under one-s wing take with a grain of salt

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