| 词汇 | it-s not what it-s cracked up to be |
| 词源 | It’s not what it’s cracked up to be. To crack was standard En- glish for “to boast or brag” until about 1700. Today this sense of the word is only found in the expression above, which can refer to a person as well as a thing. Davy Crockett was the first to use the phrase when he wrote in 1835 that “Martin Van Buren is not the man he’s cracked up to be,” an opinion of the president that history has affirmed. |
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