gazelle in the garden

名词 n.
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名词 n.
  1. Used during a meal to alert a family member or friend that they have a crumb on their face. colloquial,euphemistic
    — The other ubiquitous anecdote, told by Harvard undergraduates who enjoyed poking gentle fun at the stately and aged Mrs. Fields, describes Annie saying "There's a gazelle in the garden" when she noticed food in her husband's beard at the dinner table.

词源

Possibly from an Arabic word that means both beard and garden.
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