who's on first

短语

词形变化

who's on firsts 复数 who's on firsts

别名

who's-on-first

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A situation in which confusion arises due to homophones and similar misunderstandings.

词源

From "Who's on First?", a comic routine from 1930s vaudeville made famous by Abbott and Costello, in which two people discussing a baseball team become confused by names such as "Who" and "What".

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