| 词源 |
jaw; jaw-jaw. To jaw is to talk incessantly about little of any worth, of any purpose. This expression for idle conversation is recorded as far back as 1748 in Tobias Smollett’s novel Roderick Random. Jaw-jaw, however, though it means the same, is a crea- tion of British prime minister Winston Churchill, who said in a White House speech (June 26, 1954): “To jaw-jaw is always bet- ter than to war-war.” |