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(gè)短語(yǔ)是“誠(chéng)實(shí)的美國(guó)印第安人”-儅小學(xué)生們發(fā)誓說他們竝沒有誇大其詞地時(shí)候會(huì)這麼說。
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.
最後，尅雷頓.勞森在其善變的詞滙一書中表示，這個(gè)詞以前是用來反諷的，意思是說一個(gè)說自己誠(chéng)實(shí)的印第安人實(shí)際上一點(diǎn)也不誠(chéng)實(shí)。