how's your father

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词形变化

how's your fathers 复数 how's your fathers

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A whatsit; a thing which the speaker is unable or unwilling to specify more precisely.

    可数 俚语 不可数
  2. 2.

    Sexual intercourse.

    委婉 俚语 不可数 可数

    I popped round Mary's for a bit of how's your father.

词源

A popular catchphrase of the 1910s popularised by music-hall entertainer Harry Tate, who used it for comic effect to change the subject away from one about which his character was ignorant (hence sense 1) or a taboo subject (hence sense 2).

来源：wiktionary