| 单词 | tar baby |
| 释义 | tar baby n. 1. A inextricable situation or difficult and pressing problem that often grows worse as one tries to deal with it. 2. Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for a black person, especially a dark-skinned black child. [After "Brer Rabbit and the Tar Baby," an Uncle Remus story by Joel Chandler Harris in which Brer Fox makes a doll out of tar and Brer Rabbit gets stuck in it when he punches it after it does not return his greeting.] |
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