| 词汇 | in one ear and out the other |
| 词源 | in one ear and out the other. Only slightly changed over the past four centuries, this expression, said of things that make no impression on the mind, dates back to at least 1583, when an annoyed preacher said that his sermon “goes in one ear and out the other.” Almost two centuries earlier, in about 1400, the ex- pression is used in the poem “Romaunt of the Rose” in the form of “out at oon er / That in at that other.” |
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