英语词汇it-s not what it-s cracked up to be的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

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.
随便看	when the cat-s away the mice will play when the cocqcigrues come when the going gets tough the tough get going when the rubber hits the road when the shit hits the fan when the world grows honest when two people ride a horse one must ride behind when you call me that smile when you seek revenge dig two graves—one for your enemy one for yourself where have all the flowers gone where-s the beef where-s the fire where-s the rest of me where the hoot owl hollers at noon where there-s smoke there-s fire wherewithal whig whip city whip of god whippet whipping boy whirlybird whiskers whiskey whiskey courage

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