“半吊子”和“三脚猫”的来源众说纷纭,莫衷一是。本文指出,语言中存在“用某种东西缺少一部分来比喻智力技艺不足或呆傻冒失”的造词规律,所以“半吊子”和“三脚猫”的理据义都是残缺不足;根据量词“吊子”的搭配习惯,“半吊子”不可能来自钱串,而应该是来自器皿。 There are many different opinions on the origins of Half-Life and Three-Legged Cats. This paper points out that there are some defects in the language such as “lack of a part of something to describe the lack of intellectual skills or stupidity ”, so the rationale of “half-cocked ” and “three-legged cat According to the quantifier ”crane “ with the habit, ”half-baked " can not come from the money string, but should come from the utensils.