Reader's Digest １2/１月合併号の記事 'Mind Your Manners!' からの引用です。
I often hear people disparage those who use hadicapped-only parking spots, as if they are cheating. My mother injured her neck in a car accident and has permanent damage in her feet, legs, knees, and hips that makes walking difficult. To a stranger she looks fine, but parking at a distance is a challenge. Does she neet to carry a doctor's note to show busybodies?
"Busybody" は 10/8/2008 に取り上げましたが、語源が気になったので調べました。
WRITING EXPLAINED https://writingexplained.org/idiom-dictionary/busybodyにあった説明を引用します。
This term has a negative connotation and dates all the way back to the 1500s. It comes from the definition of busy meaning meddlesome or prying and body meaning person. Busy in this sense is now obsolete outside of this idiom.
Busybodies could try to pry into the affairs of others in many ways. They could directly ask personal questions to various individuals in an attempt to gain private information. Also, they might ask others for gossip about other individuals and could even spy on people.
Because busybody is not a polite thing to call someone, it is best to avoid doing so.
他人のことにやたらにお節介していたら忙しくなるのは当然ですよね。
I often hear people disparage those who use hadicapped-only parking spots, as if they are cheating. My mother injured her neck in a car accident and has permanent damage in her feet, legs, knees, and hips that makes walking difficult. To a stranger she looks fine, but parking at a distance is a challenge. Does she neet to carry a doctor's note to show busybodies?
"Busybody" は 10/8/2008 に取り上げましたが、語源が気になったので調べました。
WRITING EXPLAINED https://writingexplained.org/idiom-dictionary/busybodyにあった説明を引用します。
This term has a negative connotation and dates all the way back to the 1500s. It comes from the definition of busy meaning meddlesome or prying and body meaning person. Busy in this sense is now obsolete outside of this idiom.
Busybodies could try to pry into the affairs of others in many ways. They could directly ask personal questions to various individuals in an attempt to gain private information. Also, they might ask others for gossip about other individuals and could even spy on people.
Because busybody is not a polite thing to call someone, it is best to avoid doing so.
他人のことにやたらにお節介していたら忙しくなるのは当然ですよね。
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