egg of Columbus

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A brilliant idea or discovery that seems simple after the fact.

词形变化

eggs of Columbus plural

词源

Referring to an apocryphal story in which Christopher Columbus, having been told that discovering the Americas was inevitable and no great accomplishment, challenges his critics to make an egg stand on its tip. When they give up, he does it himself by tapping the egg on the table to flatten its tip.
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