| 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. |
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