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Why is a car with malfunction called "lemon"? And why is a passenger sheet called "shotgun"? 是什麼意思
Why is a car with malfunction called "lemon"? And why is a passenger sheet called "shotgun"? 是什麼意思
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"Lemon" comes from the phrase "to hand someone a lemon", which means "to promise someone a good thing, then give them a bad one". Imagine if someone promised you an apple, and then you bit into a lemon instead.
The passenger seat is called "shotgun" because on old stagecoaches (a kind of horse-drawn vehicle), the driver sat next to a person with a shotgun who would protect the vehicle from threats.
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Not just car. Any defective product (especially expensive ones) are called lemons because of the "bad taste" or rather "sour experience".
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"Lemon" comes from the phrase "to hand someone a lemon", which means "to promise someone a good thing, then give them a bad one". Imagine if someone promised you an apple, and then you bit into a lemon instead.
The passenger seat is called "shotgun" because on old stagecoaches (a kind of horse-drawn vehicle), the driver sat next to a person with a shotgun who would protect the vehicle from threats.
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