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词组 butter-and-egg man
释义 butter-and-egg man
noun
an unsophisticated free spender US, 1924
Coined by 1920s nightclub performer Texas Guinan for a shy, middle-aged man so flattered by her friendliness that he paid the steep cover charge for every guest in the house and pressed $50 notes on all the entertainers. When he said he was in the dairy business, she introduced him as “the big butter-and-egg man”.
  • He puffed on the big cigar like he always had stuck in his face and posed back like a big butter-and-egg man. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 69, 1946
  • — Rosalie Maggio, Talking About People, p. 82, 1997
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