| 词汇 | intestinal fortitude |
| 词源 | intestinal fortitude. The head coach of Ohio State Universi- ty’s football team, Dr. John W. Wilce, is said to have invented this word for “guts” in 1915 as “a protest against the lurid lan- guage of the gridiron and locker room,” guts then being consid- ered “improper for drawing-room conversation.” They don’t make coaches like Dr. Wilce anymore, nor locker rooms so mild. |
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