英语词汇the skipper swallows the anchor的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	the skipper swallows the anchor
词源	the skipper swallows the anchor. This expression originally meant that the captain or skipper of a ship has retired. The skip- per swallows the anchor dates back to the late 19th-century steamship lines, and is now sometimes used to indicate that death has come as well.
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