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.”
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