the Old Bailey的词源

英文词源

stick-in-the-mud (n.)

1852, from verbal phrase, stick (v.) on notion of "one who sticks in the mud," hence "one who is content to remain in an abject condition." The phrase appears in 1730, in city of London court records, as the alias of an accused named John Baker, who with two other men received a death sentence at the Old Bailey in December 1733 for "breaking open the House of Mr. Thomas Rayner, a Silversmith, and stealing thence Plate to a great Value."

中文词源

the Old Bailey：伦敦中央刑事法院

俚语，因位于早先伦敦城墙中的old bailey而得名。

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