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单词 babe in the woods
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babe in the woods

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An innocent or very naive person who is apt to be duped or victimized, as in She was a babe in the woods where the stock market was concerned. The term originated in a popular ballad of 1595, “The Children in the Wood,” about two young orphans who are abandoned in a forest and die.

Words nearby babe in the woods

Babcock test, babe, Bab ed-Din, babe-in-a-cradle, babe in arms, babe in the woods, Babel, Babelism, Babelize, Babelized, Bab el Mandeb
The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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