英语词汇main liner的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	main liner
词源	main liner. The main line of the Pennsylvania Railroad bor- dered an exclusive suburban area just northwest of Philadel- phia. Hence the expression main liner, for “a wealthy, socially prominent person, a member of the upper crust.” The expres- sion isn’t heard as much anymore as the other mainliner, “a drug addict who takes his narcotics by intravenous injection.”
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