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单词 injun here
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Injun here
P2. U.S. Injun here: used as an assurance of remaining true to one's principles.Obsolete. rare.With allusion to the story recounted in quot. 1863.
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1863 Daily Age (Philadelphia) 4 Dec. An old Indian having strayed from his wigwam, found himself lost... After looking about into strange ‘lodges’ here and there, the Indian exclaimed in dismay, ‘Injun lost!’ but recovering himself..continued, drawing himself up: ‘No—Injun no lost—wigwam lost—(and striking his breast) Injun here!’ So with the wandering Democrats—they are unwilling to acknowledge they have strayed from the party—it is the party that is lost.]
1873 Cincinnati Enquirer 26 Nov. 4/1 Bishop Cummins and his dissenters..claim that the Episcopal Church has gone off and left them. ‘Injun here; wigwam lost!’
1889 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang I. 484/1 Injun here! (American), a phrase often used jocosely when a man asserts that he has remained true to his principles.
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