| 单词 | indian giver |
| 释义 | > as lemmasIndian giver Indian giver n. a person who gives an Indian gift.Now chiefly depreciative and often considered offensive. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > giving > [noun] > giver > expecting a return Indian giver1838 1838 N.-Y. Mirror 23 June 412 I have seen the finger pointed at the Indian giver. (One who gives a present and demands it back again.) 1848 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms 189 Indian giver, when an Indian gives anything, expects an equivalent in return, or that the same thing may be given back to him. 1857 G. Stearns Mistake of Christendom III. iii. 310 Our Heavenly Father..is not ‘an Indian-giver’, as Job imagined; but, ever bestowing, he never takes away. 1904 N.Y. Herald 10 Sept. 5 Later he took the position of the ‘Indian giver’ and wanted the money back. 2007 Brockville (Ont.) Recorder & Times (Nexis) Oct. 20 c1 ‘What's this?’ he asked. Puzzled, I said, ‘It's the Erma Bombeck book you gave me to read’. He pushed it back at me. ‘Do you think I'm an Indian giver?’ < as lemmas |
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