Reader's Digest 9月号の記事 "Lazy at Its Finest" からの引用です。
A Stroke (or Spin) of Genius
I was a city girl who married a farmer. One day, my husband picked a bushel of green beans for me. The beans were very muddy from a recent downpour. I rinsed them in the sink several times but the mud was too thick. So I tried putting the beans in the washing machine on a cold rinse cycle with gentle agitation. Once the spin was done, they were squeaky clean.
"squeaky clean" とは面白い表現ですね。
・Oxford English Dictionary: completely clean, and therefore attractive: squeaky clean hair
・Cambridge English Dictionary: completely clean: I love the squeaky-clean feel of my hair after I've washed it.
次の辞書には由来について触れています。
・Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary: The expression originally refers literally to a surface so clean that it squeaks when a finger is rubbed across it.: The quality of government is corrupt in Indonesia, squeaky clean in Singapore, and in-between elsewhere.
A Stroke (or Spin) of Genius
I was a city girl who married a farmer. One day, my husband picked a bushel of green beans for me. The beans were very muddy from a recent downpour. I rinsed them in the sink several times but the mud was too thick. So I tried putting the beans in the washing machine on a cold rinse cycle with gentle agitation. Once the spin was done, they were squeaky clean.
"squeaky clean" とは面白い表現ですね。
・Oxford English Dictionary: completely clean, and therefore attractive: squeaky clean hair
・Cambridge English Dictionary: completely clean: I love the squeaky-clean feel of my hair after I've washed it.
次の辞書には由来について触れています。
・Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary: The expression originally refers literally to a surface so clean that it squeaks when a finger is rubbed across it.: The quality of government is corrupt in Indonesia, squeaky clean in Singapore, and in-between elsewhere.
トータル
