| 词汇 | sweet FA |
| 释义 | sweet FA Ⅰ ⇨ Fanny Adams; sweet Fanny Adams; sweet Miss Adams; sweet FA; FA; fanny noun nothing at all. From the brutal and maniacal murder, on 24th August 1867, of 8-year-old Fanny Adams, at Alton in Hampshire. Parts of her body were found over several days in different parts of the rural countryside. Upset with the tinned mutton that they were being served, British sailors in 1869 began to refer to the tins as containing the butchered contents of 'Sweet Fanny Adams'. It evolved into a suggestion of 'fuck', or 'nothing', and has been used in that sense in the C20 UK, 1914 Ⅱ ⇨ sweet Fanny Adams; sweet FA noun⇨ See: FANNY ADAMS sweet FArude slang Nothing. The phrase is a shortening of "sweet Fanny Adams" (a name chosen for its initials) and is a euphemism for "fuck all," which means the same thing. I worked there for 20 years and was dismissed with sweet FA to show for it! sweet FˈA(also less frequent sweet Fanny ˈAdams) (British English, informal) nothing; nothing important: ‘What happened while I was away?’ ‘Sweet FA.’ |
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