Fuddy-duddy

    老古董

    这个词是不是貌似很古老的样子？这是什么意思呢？请看对话：

    A: Aunt Mary said my new haircut is awful. What do you think?

    B: I think it's fine. Just ignore the opinion of a fuddy-duddy like her.

    Note: This idiom refers to an old-fashioned and foolish type of person. There are several citations in American newspapers (like the Boston Evening Transcript) from the end of the 19th century that relate to a pair of fictional wags called Fuddy and Duddy. Whether the expression "fuddy-duddy" was already known and the names were taken from it, or whether it was the other way round, we can't tell. Duddy was a Scottish term meaning ragged. Fud, or fuddy, was a Scottish dialect term for buttocks. Time magazine reported in 1939 that a survey commissioned by the paper found that, "the most frequent word used by advertisers to describe the Boston Evening Transcript was fuddy-duddy." The Transcript ceased trading soon afterwards.