| 单词 | i have a bridge to sell you |
| 释义 | > as lemmasI have a bridge to sell you P8. Originally U.S. I have a bridge to sell you (also someone could sell you a bridge) and variants: used to indicate that the speaker believes the person addressed to be very gullible, or that a particular statement or claim could only be believed by one who is easily duped.Also with the name of a particular bridge specified, esp. the Brooklyn Bridge. [With reference to the practices of con artists in the late 19th and early 20th cent., especially George C. Parker (1870–1936), who pretended to own the Brooklyn Bridge in order to trick people into buying it.] ΚΠ 1917 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 6 Jan. 7/2 It's too bad a nut from the bug house bought the Brooklyn Bridge to-day or I'd try to sell it to you. 1975 X. Herbert Poor Fellow my Country 1029 ‘Someone'd sell you the Harbour Bridge within an hour.’ ‘D'you think I'm that bushy?’ 1997 D. Gleicher Louis Brandeis slept Here 87 If you tell any young New Yorker that City College was once one of the finest colleges in the country, he'd think you were about to try to sell him a bridge in Brooklyn. 2018 Australian (Nexis) 15 Sept. 25 They gather..for a three-day [pharmaceutical] trial that promises a permanent solution to all their problems. (If you believe that, I have a bridge to sell you.) < as lemmas |
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