parish-pump的词源

英文词源

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belt: [OE] Old English belt and related Germanic forms such as Swedish bälte point to a source in Germanic *baltjaz, which was borrowed from Latin balteus, possibly a word of Etruscan origin. The verbal idiom belt up ‘be quiet’ appears to date from just before World War II.

中文词源

parish-pump：地方主义的

比喻用法，即当地的水井或抽水泵。

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