英语词汇make no bones about it的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

make no bones about it. Someone who talks frankly or straight from the shoulder about a subject makes no bones about it. Possibly the phrase refers to “not making much” of the dice or bones when rolling them in a dice game, but the theory seems farfetched. The allusion is probably to a person making no fuss or objection about eating soup or stew if there are bones in it. (I can’t swallow that, I can’t stomach that, and That sticks in my craw are other expressions in which acceptability is related to terms of eating.) Make no bones about it is an ancient saying; Nicholas Udall’s translation of Erasmus’s Paraphrase of Luke in 1548 relates that Abraham, when commanded to sacri- fice Isaac, “made no bones about it . . . but went to offer up his son.”

词汇	make no bones about it
词源	make no bones about it. Someone who talks frankly or straight from the shoulder about a subject makes no bones about it. Possibly the phrase refers to “not making much” of the dice or bones when rolling them in a dice game, but the theory seems farfetched. The allusion is probably to a person making no fuss or objection about eating soup or stew if there are bones in it. (I can’t swallow that, I can’t stomach that, and That sticks in my craw are other expressions in which acceptability is related to terms of eating.) Make no bones about it is an ancient saying; Nicholas Udall’s translation of Erasmus’s Paraphrase of Luke in 1548 relates that Abraham, when commanded to sacri- fice Isaac, “made no bones about it . . . but went to offer up his son.”
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