英语词汇tom dick and harry的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Tom, Dick, and Harry. All of these are very common names, reason enough for them to represent “everybody” or an indis- criminate, unnoteworthy collection of men in the phrase. However, one ingenious theory tried to link the expression with nicknames of the devil. The trouble is that while Old Harry and Dick (the dickens) or Nick have long been nicknames for Olde Horney, he has never been known intimately as Tom. Also, every Tom, Dick, and Harry is an American expression of the late 19th century, before the British used Dick, Tom, and Jack for the same purpose. Browns, Jones, and Robinson was used by the British in Victorian times to mean “the vulgar rich.”

词汇	tom dick and harry
词源	Tom, Dick, and Harry. All of these are very common names, reason enough for them to represent “everybody” or an indis- criminate, unnoteworthy collection of men in the phrase. However, one ingenious theory tried to link the expression with nicknames of the devil. The trouble is that while Old Harry and Dick (the dickens) or Nick have long been nicknames for Olde Horney, he has never been known intimately as Tom. Also, every Tom, Dick, and Harry is an American expression of the late 19th century, before the British used Dick, Tom, and Jack for the same purpose. Browns, Jones, and Robinson was used by the British in Victorian times to mean “the vulgar rich.”
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