| 单词 | dead-bird |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdead-bird dead-bird n. (see quot. 1898). ΚΠ 1892 R. L. Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrecker xxii. 349 Can't you give us ‘a dead bird’ for a good trade-room? 1898 E. E. Morris Austral Eng. 115/2 Dead-bird, in Australia, a recent slang term, meaning ‘a certainty’. The metaphor is from pigeon-shooting, where the bird being let loose in front of a good shot is as good as dead. < as lemmas |
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