babe(s) in the woods

Extremely naive or innocent individual(s). The term comes from a popular ballad, “The Children in the Wood” (1595), about two orphaned children. Their wicked uncle wants their inheritance and hires two men to murder them. One of the men repents and kills the other, but he abandons the children in a deep forest, where they die. The tale was kept alive by numerous writers, notably through Thomas Percy’s collection, Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (1765).

词组	babe(s) in the woods
释义	babe(s) in the woods babe(s) in the woods Extremely naive or innocent individual(s). The term comes from a popular ballad, “The Children in the Wood” (1595), about two orphaned children. Their wicked uncle wants their inheritance and hires two men to murder them. One of the men repents and kills the other, but he abandons the children in a deep forest, where they die. The tale was kept alive by numerous writers, notably through Thomas Percy’s collection, Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (1765). See also: wood The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer See also: helicopter parent monkey see, monkey do refrigerator mother children should be seen and not heard make ground one by one the hand that rocks the cradle (rules the world) The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world bargain on bargain on (something)
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