knock galley west击碎

【使用地区】：英国

【释义】：

To knock into smithereens．No one has been able to explain why a ship’s galley or the compass point west have anything to do with this expression．They may not．The words may be a corruption of the dialect term collyweston，which in turn derived from the town of Colly Weston in Northamptonshire，a town reportedly given to excessive violence．Colly Weston itself may have been named for a local，violent troublemaker of the same name．

意义如上所示。没有人能解释，为什么船的厨房或指向西方的罗盘与这个词语会有联系。或许两者之间毫无关系。该词语可能是方言词collyweston的讹误，而此方言又源于北安普敦郡的科利韦斯顿镇。据报道，该镇暴力行为频繁。Colly Weston本身也许是以当地的一个暴力事件制造者的名字命名的。