英语词汇the penny drops的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	the penny drops
词源	the penny drops. One’s understanding of something becomes apparent. The allusion is to a penny dropping into a slot ma- chine. “After he heard that, the penny should have dropped.”
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