英语词汇make fur fly的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

make fur fly. The cruel “sport” of trapping raccoons and set- ting dogs on them to see how long the coons could last may have suggested this expression to American pioneers. Certainly the air was filled with fur during such fights. By at least 1825 the saying meant “to attack violently.” In the autobiographical A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett, of the State of Tennes- see (1834) we read: “I knew very well that I was in the devil of a hobble, for my father had been taking a few horns, and was in a good condition to make the fur fly.”

词汇	make fur fly
词源	make fur fly. The cruel “sport” of trapping raccoons and set- ting dogs on them to see how long the coons could last may have suggested this expression to American pioneers. Certainly the air was filled with fur during such fights. By at least 1825 the saying meant “to attack violently.” In the autobiographical A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett, of the State of Tennes- see (1834) we read: “I knew very well that I was in the devil of a hobble, for my father had been taking a few horns, and was in a good condition to make the fur fly.”
随便看	wham bam thank-ye-ma’am what am i chopped liver what a revoltin’ development this is what are you a man or a mouse what a way to run a railroad what can’t be cured must be endured what cato did and addison approved cannot be wrong whatchamacallit whatcheer what doesn’t kill me him makes me him stronger what do you know about that what every schoolboy knows what fools these mortals be what goes around comes around what goes up must come down what hath god wrought what-s good for general motors is good for the country what-s new what-s the good word what-s up doc what-s what what-s with you what the dickens what the hey what time does the next swan leave