英语词汇the quip modest的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	the quip modest
词源	the quip modest. Shakespeare seems to have invented this expression, which Touchstone defines in As You Like It, as “it was done to please myself.” If a person was told that his beard was cut badly and he replied that he cut it to please himself, Touchstone says, this would be the quip modest, “six removes from the lie direct.”
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