英语词汇hunt elevetrich的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	hunt elevetrich
词源	hunt elevetrich. To be led on a fool’s mission. A Pennsylva- nia Dutch term several centuries old that is equivalent to hunt- ing an imaginary snipe. No such bird as the elevetrich exists, of course, and the naive hunter who is led out in the woods to shoot one is usually abandoned there, left wandering the woods, burlap bag in hand.
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