| 单词 | i'm from missouri, you'll have to show me |
| 释义 | > as lemmasI'm from Missouri, you'll have to show me U.S. colloquial. I'm from Missouri, you'll have to show me and variants: I am very sceptical; I believe nothing until it is demonstrated. Also attributive in I'm-from-Missouri. Cf. show-me adj.With reference to the state; see etymology. ΚΠ 1894 Sunday World-Herald (Omaha, Nebraska) 28 Oct. 10/1 John S. Johnson's time on a bicycle at Buffalo Wednesday was the fastest mile ever covered by man or beast... Johnson says that he can cover a mile in 1:30 flat, but being from Missouri he will have to show me. 1897 Kansas Univ. Q. Apr. 91 We have an expression in Missouri, ‘I'm from Missouri: you’ll have to show me.’ 1900 Missouri State Tribune (Jefferson City) 13 Dec. 4/1 Ex-Lieut.-Gov. Chas. P. Johnson thinks he knows the origin of the extensively-used expression: ‘I'm from Missouri; you'll have to show me’; at least he can recall its use twenty years ago in Colorado. 1901 Columbia Missouri Statesman 13 Dec. 1/3 You gentlemen are from Kentucky, Texas, Tennessee and Arkansas and seem to trust each other, but ‘I'm from Missouri and you must show me’. 1912 C. McCarthy Wisconsin Idea 291 In the words of the current slang phrase, every Wisconsin legislator ‘comes from Missouri’ and you have to ‘show him’. 1963 J. Mitford Amer. Way of Death iii. iv. 132 If you suggest..that Destiny led him there, he will give you an I'm-from-Missouri look. 1992 New Republic 3 Aug. 12/1 I'd love to vote for a Democrat... But I'm from Missouri. I want to be shown. < as lemmas |
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