词组 | spit and image |
释义 | spit and image noun an exact likeness of someone or something UK, 1895 The surviving form of “spit and fetch” (image, picture), in which “spit” is surely the substance of a body, or perhaps its corrupted “spirit” and the noun with which it is combined represents an outer-appearance, (“fetch” is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as “the apparition, double or wraith of a living person”); “spit and” has varied in dialect use to spitten leading, ultimately, to the conventional synonym: “spitting image”.
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