英语词汇jawbone of an ass的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	jawbone of an ass
词源	jawbone of an ass. The phrase is from the Bible, Judges 14:16: “With the jawbone of an ass . . . have I slain a thousand men.” Jawbone has come to be associated with talking or jawing. On a rare occasion Oscar Wilde was bested after he told a Boston audience: “You’re Philistines who have invaded the sacred sanctum of Art.” Replied someone in the balcony: “And you’re driving us forth with the jawbone of an ass.”
随便看	on the carpet on the cuff on the fritz on the hind tit teat on the hip on the house on the lam on the level on the make on the nail on the nose on the pad on the pig-s back on the qui vive on the rocks on the ropes on the same sheet of music with on the shady side of 40 on the side of the angels on the spot on the spree on the square on the tip of my tongue on the town on the wagon

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