| 词汇 | cheap john |
| 词源 | cheap John. For well over a century cheap John has meant in- ferior goods, a person who deals in them, and, by extension, any cheap person. There is even a chain of stores called Cheap Johns today. “None of your cheap-John turn-outs for me. I’m here to have a good time, and money ain’t any object,” wrote Mark Twain in Roughing It (1872). |
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