queen

Queen Anne's dead used humorously or ironically to suggest that a piece of supposed 'news' is in fact stale, or more broadly that a person who says something is simply stating the obvious or restating a well-worn or accepted truth. informal

☞ The expression is first recorded in 1798, by which time Queen Anne had indeed been dead for 84 years; but there is evidence of an earlier version, 'Queen Elizabeth is dead', from the 1730s.

2005Liverpool Daily Echo 'McFadden's gone past the three French players there', said Lawrenson, who can also tell us that Queen Anne is dead, night follows day and bears defecate in the woods.

take the Queen's shilling: see take the King's shilling atshilling.

词组	queen
释义	queen Queen Anne's dead used humorously or ironically to suggest that a piece of supposed 'news' is in fact stale, or more broadly that a person who says something is simply stating the obvious or restating a well-worn or accepted truth. informal ☞ The expression is first recorded in 1798, by which time Queen Anne had indeed been dead for 84 years; but there is evidence of an earlier version, 'Queen Elizabeth is dead', from the 1730s. 2005Liverpool Daily Echo 'McFadden's gone past the three French players there', said Lawrenson, who can also tell us that Queen Anne is dead, night follows day and bears defecate in the woods. take the Queen's shilling: see take the King's shilling atshilling.
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