| 词汇 | can you top this |
| 词源 | Can You Top This? The name of a popular 1940s radio com- edy show on which comedians told jokes, the audience decid- ing whose were the funniest. The title seems to derive from the earlier phrase can you beat that, first recorded in 1937 and meaning “can you beat that for impudence or excellence, or unexpectedness?” |
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