英语词汇household words的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	household words
词源	household words. Shakespeare may have invented this work- horse phrase, for it is first recorded in his Henry V: “. . . then shall our name,/ Familier in their mouths as household words . . .” More likely, the Bard was repeating an already com- mon expression. Also, the title of a magazine started by Dick- ens in 1859, which contained much of his later work.
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