英语词汇pipe dream的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	pipe dream
词源	pipe dream. The opium pipe is the source of this phrase, for “a fantastic notion or story, an illusion.” First recorded in Wal- lace Irvin’s Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum (1901), the term probably dates back to the 1890s. The expression pipe, used by O. Henry, among others, once meant the same.
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