| 词汇 | bobtailed |
| 释义 | (redirected from bobtailed)ragtag and bobtailThe lowest social class; the common people. You must be joking—a person of my social status can't eat with the ragtag and bobtail at a fast food place! rag, tag, and bobtailThe lowest social class; the common people. You must be joking—a person of my social status can't eat with the rag, tag, and bobtail at a filthy pub! rag, tag, and bobtaila group of people perceived as disreputable or undesirable.A bobtail is a horse or dog with a docked tail, while rag and tag both express the idea of ‘tattered clothes’: the phrase literally means ‘people in ragged clothes together with their dogs and horses’. The forms tag, rag, and bobtail , ragtag and bobtail , and tagrag and bobtail are also found. ragtag and bobtailLow-life, riffraff. This expression dates back to the seventeenth century, when ragtag meant a ragged lot of people and bobtail a horse whose tail had been cut short (“bobbed”) and was considered valueless. Samuel Pepys in his Diary turned it about a bit: “The dining-room was full of tag rag and bobtail, dancing, singing, and drinking” (1658–59). The expression is not heard much any longer, however, at least not in the United States. |
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