英语词汇make the feathers fly的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	make the feathers fly
词源	make the feathers fly. To badly beat an opponent in a fight. This Americanism is first recorded in John Neal’s romantic novel Brother Jonathan (1825): “If my New York master only had hold o’ him; he’d make the feathers fly.”
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