英语词汇hotter than a two-dollar pistol的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	hotter than a two-dollar pistol
词源	hotter than a two-dollar pistol. An old Americanism mean- ing very hot, an allusion to cheap 19th-century pistols that got hot when fired.
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