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1 mai 2012 · 8. The cat in copy-cat means person. The OED says at copy-cat n.: Etymology: cat n.1 2. the referenced sense being: cat n.1 2. fig. a. As a term of contempt for a human being; esp. one who scratches like a cat; a spiteful or backbiting woman. spec. an itinerant worker (U.S. slang). Share. Improve this answer.
copycat是盲目模仿者的意思。 解释： copycat 英[ˈkɒpikæt] 美[ˈkɑ:pikæt] n. 盲目模仿者; [其他] 复数：copycats. 例句： 1.The Beatles have copycats all over the world. 披头士乐队的模仿者遍布全世界。 2.You mean that it's a copycat and you have some kind of recall.
31 janv. 2015 · Possible sources. Partridge says it's US and Canada slang from c. 1930, and that Norman Franklin says (1976) the original reference is to ther agricultural muck-spreader, and also mentions the following joke as perhaps valid.
29 août 2016 · You may be in good company. There may be an obscure single-word that means "science lover", but it won't be understood by most readers. So, I suggest you use two words: Science + lover / buff / aficionado / enthusiast / nut / fan / fanatic / addict etc. There are quite a lot of usage examples for these on Google.
So the female forename Polly comes from the female forename Poll (also Pall), and was originally a rhyming variant of Moll, which is a diminutive of Mary. Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (1719) named his parrot Poll and taught him to speak, and in a much later 1894 children's version the parrot said "Polly wants a cracker, cracker."
27 janv. 2012 · 1. Hissy fit could come from Hysterical, where hysteria was associated with women who had a hysterectomy and any fits of 'craziness' (for lack of a better term) were attributed to to the hysterectomy. Hence hissy fit and hence its association with women. (sourced from an undisclosed episode of QI, BBC.co.uk) Share.
4 févr. 2015 · I've always heard that the phrase "In the weeds" had it's origins rooted in the prohibition era. The story goes that reserves of alcohol for most speakeasys wasn't stored, for the most part, inside said establishment because in the event of a raid, all of the reserve alcohol would be l
