queer as Dick’s headband像迪克的头带一样奇怪

【使用地区】：英国

【释义】：

Oliver Cromwell’s son Richard(1626－1712)，who ineffectually ruled England as Protector after his father，was widely called Queen Dick for his effeminate ways．Whether he was a homosexual isn’t known，but homosexuality certainly isn’t alluded to in the expression as queer as Dick’s hatband．This means“as strange as Dick’s crown，”a crown on the head ofsuch a weak，ineffectual person seeming incongruous or ridiculous to most of his subjects．Though several writers have associated“queer”with homosexual in the phrase，the slang queer for homosexual isn’t recorded until the 1920s．

Oliver Cromwell(奥里弗·克仑威尔)的儿子理查德(1626－1712)在其父之后，作为护国公统治英国，但却毫无威信。由于他的女子气，被称作“迪克王后”。他是否是同性恋无人知晓，但同性恋绝对与“as queer as Dick’s hatband”的说法无关。此短语的意思是“象Dick的王冠一样奇怪”。对大部分臣民来说，王冠戴在这样一个女子气人的头上，似乎不合时宜，滑稽可笑。尽管有的作家把queer与同性恋联系起来，但直到20世纪20年代，queer一词才有“同性恋”的意思，并作为俚语收录在辞书里。