英语词汇throw cold water on something的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

throw cold water on (something). To cold-pie or cold-pig someone, to wake him up by throwing cold water on him, was a practice well known and despised in Elizabethan times. Per- haps cold-pigging suggested the expression to throw cold water on (something), “to discourage a plan or practice,” for it surely ruined many a good dream. But a lot of guesses are possible here. The expression is at least 200 years old and could also have been suggested by hydrotherapy, the so-called ocean cold- water cures with which many a physical and mental illness was treated by dousing a patient with cold seawater. Anyway, the treatment was said to reduce the “mental heat” of extremely nervous persons and make them apathetic.

词汇	throw cold water on something
词源	throw cold water on (something). To cold-pie or cold-pig someone, to wake him up by throwing cold water on him, was a practice well known and despised in Elizabethan times. Per- haps cold-pigging suggested the expression to throw cold water on (something), “to discourage a plan or practice,” for it surely ruined many a good dream. But a lot of guesses are possible here. The expression is at least 200 years old and could also have been suggested by hydrotherapy, the so-called ocean cold- water cures with which many a physical and mental illness was treated by dousing a patient with cold seawater. Anyway, the treatment was said to reduce the “mental heat” of extremely nervous persons and make them apathetic.
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