英语词汇make things hum的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	make things hum
词源	make things hum. Since at least the early 18th century, hum- ming, suggesting the blending of many human voices or the ac- tivity of busy bees, has been used to express a condition of busy activity. Two hundred years later the expression to make things hum was invented in America. Possibly the hum of machines in New England textile factories was the inspiration for the phrase, in reference to the fabled Yankee mechanics who made things hum again when the machines broke down.
随便看	as cold as charity ascot as deaf as the mainmast as different as chalk and cheese as drunk as david-s sow as easy as shaking the drops off your john a serpent in one-s bosom as every schoolboy knows a shag on a rock ashes a shrimp short of a barbie asiatic hordes ask a silly question and you’ll get a silly answer ask not what your country can do for you ask what you can do for your country a slice off the old ham as long as grass grows and water runs as mad as ajax as maine goes so goes the nation a small cup of tea as much chance as a one-legged man at an ass-kicking contest as one man a son of a bitch-s son of a bitch a sorry sight asparagus

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