nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American people

谚语

英文释义

谚语
  1. Americans, as a group, do not have good taste or sophistication and can be easily amused or distracted to produce financial benefit for someone.
    — “I remembered that nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public, so I set out to write the worst novel it was humanly possible to write and still get published,” he said.

词形变化

nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public alternative no one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American people alternative

词源

Widely attributed to American author and social critic H. L. Mencken (1880–1956) but not found in his published works, so the source and original form of this expression are not known with certainty.
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