英语词汇in a bad box的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	in a bad box
词源	in a bad box. Box here means “predicament.” The old saying may have been invented by Mason Locke Weems in his The Drunkard’s Looking Glass (1818), the same Parson Weems who may have invented the story of George Washington and the cherry tree in a biography of the first U.S. president. Others of what the good parson called his “good books” were Hymen’s Recruiting Sergent and God’s Revenge Against Adultery. See i cannot tell a lie.
随便看	once in a blue moon once upon a time on cloud nine on death-s doorstep on deck one-armed bandit one degree under one fishball one foot in charon-s ferryboat one foot in the grave one foot on a banana peel and the other in the grave one for ripley one good turn deed deserves another one-handed shot one-horse outfit one hundred percent american one man-s meat one-man tango one meatball one meat ball one-name star one never knows do one one over the eight one people one country one leader one perry and one porter were too much for john bull to swallow

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