honest injun

常見例句

Tom—honest injun, now—is it fun, or earnest?
湯姆，你是開玩笑，還是說真格的？
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Another more recent phrase is “honest injun”—as schoolboys might say when swearing that they aren’t exaggerating about something.
最近常用的一個短語是“誠實(shí)的美國印第安人”-當(dāng)小學(xué)生們發(fā)誓說他們并沒有夸大其詞地時(shí)候會這么說。
Finally, Hugh Rawson in his book Wicked Words feels the phrase used to be used derisively, meaning someone who was an honest injun wasn’t honest at all.
最后，克雷頓.勞森在其善變的詞匯一書中表示，這個詞以前是用來反諷的，意思是說一個說自己誠實(shí)的印第安人實(shí)際上一點(diǎn)也不誠實(shí)。