英语词汇cigar的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	cigar
词源	cigar. From the Spanish cigaro meaning the same. Close but no cigar means “not a winning effort.” One of Sigmund Freud’s students, knowing the cigar is often viewed as a phallic symbol by psychiatrists, asked the confirmed cigar smoker what he thought of this theory. Between puffs on his long Havana, Freud replied, “Sometimes . . . a cigar is just a cigar.”
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