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Your Idea Will Not Wash.歌词

[00:10.43]I'm Susan Clark
[00:12.62]with the Special English program
[00:15.06]WORDS AND THEIR STORIES.
[00:17.99]Young Mister Smith
[00:20.08]had an idea for his employer.
[00:21.97]It was an idea for saving money
[00:25.31]for the company
[00:26.30]by increasing prices.
[00:28.19]At the same time,
[00:30.34]Smith suggested that the company
[00:32.78]sell goods of less value.
[00:35.37]If his employer liked the idea,
[00:39.40]Smith might be given more pay.
[00:42.00]Perhaps he might even
[00:44.19]get a better job with the company.
[00:46.23]Business had been very slow.
[00:50.01]So Mister Smith's employer
[00:52.76]thought a few minutes
[00:54.40]about the idea.
[00:55.80]But then she shook her head.
[00:58.79]"I am sorry, Smith,"
[01:01.63]his employer said.
[01:03.22]"It just will not wash."
[01:07.05]Now, the meaning of
[01:10.04]these English words should be,
[01:12.13]"It will not get clean."
[01:14.02]Yet Smith's idea did not
[01:17.55]have anything to do
[01:19.09]with making something clean.
[01:21.43]So why did his employer say,
[01:24.67]"It will not wash?"
[01:26.91]Most word experts agree that
[01:31.63]"it will not wash"
[01:33.13]means it will not work.
[01:36.21]Eric Partridge wrote that
[01:39.21]the saying probably developed
[01:40.70]in Britain in the eighteen hundreds.
[01:43.34]Charlotte Bronte used it
[01:46.03]in a story published
[01:47.32]in eighteen forty-nine.
[01:49.36]She wrote, "That wiln't wash, miss."
[01:53.39]Mizz Bronte seems to have meant that
[01:57.07]the dyes used to color
[01:59.46]a piece of clothing
[02:01.12]were not good.
[02:03.16]The colors could not be depended
[02:06.10]on to stay in the material.
[02:08.59]In nineteenth century England,
[02:12.58]the expression came to mean
[02:15.02]an undependable statement.
[02:17.66]It was used mainly
[02:19.70]to describe an idea.
[02:21.84]But sometimes it was
[02:24.72]used about a person.
[02:26.12]A critic once said
[02:29.70]of the poet Robert Browning,
[02:31.49]"He won't wash."
[02:33.63]The critic did not mean that
[02:36.42]the poet was not a clean person.
[02:39.11]He meant that Browning's poems
[02:42.24]could not be depended on to last.
[02:45.59]Today, we know that
[02:48.37]judgment was wrong.
[02:49.57]Robert Browning still
[02:52.11]is considered a major poet.
[02:55.14]But very few people remember
[02:57.83]the man who said Browning
[03:00.13]would not wash.
[03:01.52]Happily for the young employee Smith,
[03:05.93]his employer wanted him
[03:08.97]to do well in the company.
[03:10.41]So the employer
[03:12.61]"talked turkey" to him.
[03:14.90]She said,
[03:16.69]"Your idea would be unfair
[03:19.18]to our buyers.
[03:20.32]Think of another way to save money."
[03:23.46]A century ago,
[03:26.10]to talk turkey meant
[03:28.49]to talk pleasantly.
[03:30.14]Turkeys in the barnyard
[03:32.33]were thought to be speaking
[03:34.12]pleasantly to one another.
[03:35.81]In recent years, the saying
[03:38.90]has come to mean an attempt
[03:41.18]to teach something important.
[03:44.32]Word expert Charles Funk tells
[03:48.36]how he believes
[03:49.31]this change took place.
[03:50.90]He says two men were
[03:54.03]shooting turkeys together.
[03:55.63]One of them was a white man.
[03:58.61]The other was an American Indian.
[04:02.10]The white man began stating reasons
[04:06.43]why he should get
[04:08.07]all the turkeys for himself.
[04:10.06]But the American Indian
[04:12.70]stopped him.
[04:13.74]He told the white man,
[04:16.23]"Now, I talk turkey to you."
[04:19.66]Mister Smith thought of
[04:22.35]a better idea after his employer
[04:24.64]talked turkey to him.
[04:26.63]He was given an increase in pay.
[04:29.47]So if your idea "will not wash,"
[04:33.75]try "talking turkey" to yourself
[04:37.13]and come up with a better idea.
[04:39.22](MUSIC)
[04:46.94]This WORDS AND THEIR STORIES program
[04:49.82]was written by Jeri Watson.
[04:52.11]I'm Susan Clark.
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