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Zoologically speaking, there are no native rabbits in the United States; they are all hares. But the early colonists, for some unknown reason, dropped the word hare out of their vocabulary, and it is rarely heard in American speech to this day. When it appears it is almost always applied to the so-called Belgian hare, which, curiously enough, is not a hare at all, but a true rabbit. [Mencken, "The American Language"]Rabbit punch "chop on the back of the neck" so called from resemblance to a gamekeeper's method of dispatching an injured rabbit. Pulling rabbits from a hat as a conjurer's trick recorded by 1843. Rabbit's foot "good luck charm" first attested 1879, in U.S. Southern black culture. Earlier references are to its use as a tool to apply cosmetic powders.
[N]ear one of them was the dressing-room of the principal danseuse of the establishment, who was at the time of the rising of the curtain consulting a mirror in regard to the effect produced by the application of a rouge-laden rabbit's foot to her cheeks, and whose toilet we must remark, passim, was not entirely completed. ["New York Musical Review and Gazette," Nov. 29, 1856]Rabbit ears "dipole television antenna" is from 1950. Grose's 1785 "Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue" has "RABBIT CATCHER. A midwife."
(informal)reproduce prolifically
(非正式)像兔子下崽似的生儿育女;大量繁殖
used to describe an action that is fortuitous, and may involve sleight of hand or deception
(尤指出乎意外)变戏法似的找到解决办法
a rabbit has been pulled out of the political hat.
神奇的是解决这一政治问题的办法像变戏法似地找到了。
hare, rabbit
这两个名词均有"兔子"之意。
hare: 指生在森林或田野等处的野兔。
rabbit: 通常指家中饲养的家兔。
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