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Jimmy Hung
2022-04-08 08:04
Bosom buddy/friend slang
A person who you adore and form a really close friendship with.
He used to be my bosom friend, but I became estranged from him after the argument.
After that argument last night, I'm not on speaking terms with my bosom buddy, John.
Một loài côn trùng nhỏ sống trên cơ thể người và động vật.
I feel like some bosom friends are crawling on my head! Can you help me catch them?
OMG! Your hair is infested with bosom friends.
Used to refer to body lice
This turn of phrase for denoting a very dear associate is found in both the Old and New Testaments. Nathan says it “lay in his bosom and was unto him as a daughter” (2 Samuel 12:3), and in the Gospel of St. John, John, often called the “beloved disciple,” is described as the bosom friend of Jesus. In his “Ode to Autumn” John Keats wrote, “Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, close bosom-friend of the maturing sun.” By this time “bosom friend” was also a euphemism for body lice, and Jonathan Swift’s Polite Conversation (1738) includes the pun, “I’m afraid your Bosom Friends are become your Backbiters.” The alliterative bosom buddy is of later provenance; the word “buddy,” for comrade or chum, dates from the mid-nineteenth century and originated in America.
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