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单词 dead-bird
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dead-bird
dead-bird n. (see quot. 1898).
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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.
extracted from deadadj.n.adv.
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