goody two shoes

短语

别名

goody-two-shoes goodie two shoes

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A goody-goody; a person who is almost always perfectly well-behaved, with an implication of smugness.

    贬义

词源

From goody (“goodwife, obsolete title of respect for a woman”) + two + shoes. Generally considered to have originated with the title character in The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes (1765), which indeed seems to be the source of its later use as a common noun with the present meaning. However, as a proper noun with implications of wealth rather than goodness, it is also found earlier, c. 1687, in the writings of Charles Cotton: “Why, what then; Goody Two-Shoes, what if it be? / Hold you, if you can, your tittle-tattle, quoth he.”

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