英语词汇make him an offer he can’t refuse的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

make him an offer he can’t refuse. Used jokingly today, but popularized by the film version of Mario Puzo’s The Godfather (1972), in which the godfather, played by Marlon Brando, uses it as a veiled threat. One of his confidants tells him that a certain Hollywood producer will never give his godson an im- portant part in a movie he is making. “I’m gonna make him an offer he can’t refuse,” is the godfather’s exact answer, implying the potential of violence to the producer. That violence turns out to be decapitating the producer’s prize racehorse and plac- ing the horse’s head in the bed where he is sleeping. The phrase is used several times in the Godfather movies.

词汇	make him an offer he can’t refuse
词源	make him an offer he can’t refuse. Used jokingly today, but popularized by the film version of Mario Puzo’s The Godfather (1972), in which the godfather, played by Marlon Brando, uses it as a veiled threat. One of his confidants tells him that a certain Hollywood producer will never give his godson an im- portant part in a movie he is making. “I’m gonna make him an offer he can’t refuse,” is the godfather’s exact answer, implying the potential of violence to the producer. That violence turns out to be decapitating the producer’s prize racehorse and plac- ing the horse’s head in the bed where he is sleeping. The phrase is used several times in the Godfather movies.
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