| 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. |