英语词汇it might have been的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	it might have been
词源	it might have been. It is said that American poet John Green- leaf Whittier (1807–92) penned his famous couplet because he never married, having devoted his life to several careers: Of all sad words of tongue and pen The saddest are these: It might have been.
随便看	push of pike pushover puss pussel-gutted pussyfoot put a flea in one-s ear put all your eggs in one basket put a sock in it putative put in a good word for someone put in one-s two cents’ worth put it all in the first paragraph put lay one-s finger upon put nothing smaller than your elbow in your ear put one-s best foot forward put one-s foot in one-s mouth put one-s oar in another-s boat put on nothing but the radio put on the buskin put on the dog put on the gloves put on the spot putt put that in your pipe and smoke it put the cart before the horse

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