英语词汇picked too soon early的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	picked too soon early
词源	picked too soon (early). Some fruits (pears, peaches, straw- berries, etc.) ripen after they are picked, but not if they are picked before a certain time—if they are so picked they will never ripen. This may well be the origin of the old expression picked too soon or early, referring to a child who is forced to ex- cel at something he or she may be good at but isn’t ready to pursue, unable at the time to be anything but a child. See precocious; prodigy.
随便看	put in a good word for someone put in one-s two cents’ worth put it all in the first paragraph put lay one-s finger upon put nothing smaller than your elbow in your ear put one-s best foot forward put one-s foot in one-s mouth put one-s oar in another-s boat put on nothing but the radio put on the buskin put on the dog put on the gloves put on the spot putt put that in your pipe and smoke it put the cart before the horse put the john d to her put the kibosh on put the pedal to the metal put the toothpaste back in the tube put through the mill put to the pale put up on a pedestal put up your dukes put your foot in it

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