Question of the Day #288

"…Rosenstein suggested that McCabe or others wear a wire when speaking with the president…."
From the first sentence of the first paragraph of this article at ABC News.

上記の文で、wear a wireの意味は？
In the sentence above, what does "wear a wire" mean?

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解答

意味：
英辞郎によると、


盗聴器を身に付ける

ちなみに、wireは本来「針金」という意味ですが、盗聴器の意味もある。

Answer

According to this page at Google Books:

A person fitted with a surreptitious recording device to help others spy on conversations is said to wear a wire.

Etymology/語源

Google Booksのこのページによると、

1957年のJ.D. MacDonaldの小説A Man of Affairsに"The joint is wired...."というくだりがある。この場合のwireは、「電子的盗聴・傍受」の意。

According to the same page as above in Google Books:

"The joint is wired...." wrote J.D. MacDonald in a 1957 novel, A Man of Affairs...The single word wire stood for "electronic eavesdropping."

Now, I'm not absolutely positive that this is the origin of wear a wire, but it's the closest I can find at the present time.

Examples

• Yeah, I'm gonna wear a wire.