词组 | almonds |
释义 | almonds ⇨ almond rocks; almonds; rocksnoun socks. Rhyming slang, based on a confection popular from the mid-C19, can be presumed therefore to be late C19 in origin. In the mid-C20 it was popularly abbreviated to 'almonds'; later use seems to favour 'rocks', i.e. 'cotton rocks'. A specialised military variation arising during World War 1 was 'army rocks' UK, 1979 |
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