标题: 【sharing】As fit as a fiddle [打印本页] 作者: 空弦无音 时间: 2013-12-1 01:15 PM 标题: 【sharing】As fit as a fiddle Meaning
Very fit and well
意思是很适合
Origin:
Of course the 'fiddle' here is the colloquial name for violin. 'Fit' didn't originally mean healthy and energetic, in the sense it is often used nowadays to describe the inhabitants of gyms. When this phrase was coined 'fit' was used to mean 'suitable, seemly', in the way we now might say 'fit for purpose'.
Thomas Dekker, in The batchelars banquet, 1603 referred to 'as fine as a fiddle':
"Then comes downe mistresse Nurse as fine as a farthing fiddle, in her petticoate and kertle."
Not long afterwards, in 1616, there's W. Haughton's English-men for my Money, which includes:
"This is excellent ynfayth [in faith], as fit as a fiddle."
其实用as fit as a fiddle来形容一个人很健康是不对的～作者: pquvmrdts 时间: 2013-12-20 11:49 AM
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