英语词汇pin your ears back的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

pin your ears back. A phrase threatening physical or verbal violence on someone: “That wise guy should have had his ears pinned back long ago.” Pinning its ears back by tying them with a cord and stick that could be controlled was apparently a method used to break wild horses in the 19th-century Ameri- can West. The phrase may have then become a threat to other cowboys and finally to anyone at all. However, I can find no well-documented place of origin for the expression and one source traces its first recorded use to the 1930s.

词汇	pin your ears back
词源	pin your ears back. A phrase threatening physical or verbal violence on someone: “That wise guy should have had his ears pinned back long ago.” Pinning its ears back by tying them with a cord and stick that could be controlled was apparently a method used to break wild horses in the 19th-century Ameri- can West. The phrase may have then become a threat to other cowboys and finally to anyone at all. However, I can find no well-documented place of origin for the expression and one source traces its first recorded use to the 1930s.
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