英语词汇confederate money的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	confederate money
词源	Confederate money. A term that means “money not worth the paper it is printed on,” referring to the worthless banknotes of the Confederacy after the Civil War. At that time, according to Margaret Mitchell in Gone With the Wind (1936), an anony- mous poem entitled “Lines on the Back of a Confederate Note” was circulated in the South, sometimes written by hand on pieces of paper pasted to the backs of the “useless” Confederate notes: Representing nothing on God’s Earth now And naught in the waters below it— As the pledge of a nation that’s passed away Keep it, dear friend, and show it. Show it to those who will lend an ear To the tale this trifle will tell Of Liberty, born of patriot’s dream, Of a storm-cradled nation that fell. See also bluebacks.
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