词汇 | to the babies |
词源 | To the babies! A toast made at an 1879 Chicago banquet for General Ulysses S. Grant. Mark Twain answered it: “We haven’t all had the good fortune to be ladies; we haven’t all been gener- als, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to babies, we stand on common ground.” |
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