词汇 | jenny lind steak |
词源 | Jenny Lind steak. An historical term honoring Swedish so- prano Jenny Lind (1820–87), a singer immensely popular in the mid-19th century. The humorous phrase was defined as “a steak cut from off a horse’s upper lip.” See jenny lind above. |
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