1796, from Blarney Stone (which is said to make a persuasive flatterer of any who kiss it), in a castle near Cork, Ireland. As Bartlett explains it, the reason is the difficulty of the feat of kissing the stone where it sits high up in the battlement: "to have ascended it, was proof of perseverence, courage, and agility, whereof many are supposed to claim the honor who never achieved the adventure." So to have kissed the Blarney Stone came to mean "to tell wonderful tales" ["Dictionary of Americanisms," 1848]. The word reached wide currency through Lady Blarney, the smooth-talking flatterer in Goldsmith's "Vicar of Wakefield" (1766). As a verb from 1803.
实用例句
1. I want none of your blarney.
我不要你们奉承.
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2. The Irish castle now is famous Blarney stone.
这爱尔兰城堡的Blarney石头 现在很有名(被称为巧言石).
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3. He gave her some blarney about why he was late.
他对她说了一些鬼话来解释他迟到的原因.
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4. He is full of blarney.
他满口胡言.
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5. Laday Blarney was particularly attached to Olivia.
