英语词汇potshot的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	potshot
词源	potshot. A potshot was originally “a shot for the pot,” that is, a shot taken at an animal in order to fill the dinner pot, without any regard for rules and from any distance, no matter how close. The earlier pothunter, first recorded in 1781, suggested the word, which came to mean, in both military and civilian use, a shot aimed at somebody within easy reach, without giv- ing the person any chance to defend himself, as in an ambush. An abbreviation is to pot somebody.
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