英语词汇cold shoulder的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

cold shoulder. “Cold shoulders” have been turned to so many passionate advances that this expression is usually thought to be connected with women spurning unacceptable men. But it seems that the phrase has no romantic origins. In the early 19th century, when the phrase was first recorded by Sir Walter Scott, it was the custom of hostesses to serve hot meat to a welcome visitor and to bring out a cold shoulder of mutton to someone who had overstayed his welcome or wasn’t particularly welcome in the first place. That this is the source of cold shoulder can best be seen in the Victorian slang to give the cold shoulder of mutton, meaning the same thing.

词汇	cold shoulder
词源	cold shoulder. “Cold shoulders” have been turned to so many passionate advances that this expression is usually thought to be connected with women spurning unacceptable men. But it seems that the phrase has no romantic origins. In the early 19th century, when the phrase was first recorded by Sir Walter Scott, it was the custom of hostesses to serve hot meat to a welcome visitor and to bring out a cold shoulder of mutton to someone who had overstayed his welcome or wasn’t particularly welcome in the first place. That this is the source of cold shoulder can best be seen in the Victorian slang to give the cold shoulder of mutton, meaning the same thing.
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