单词 | death to ——! |
释义 | > as lemmasdeath to ——! P12. death to ——!: used (esp. in slogans or chants by crowds in political contexts) to express a desire to kill or eradicate a specified person or thing. Also used humorously and in weakened sense. [In early use with reference to France after French mort à ——!, as used in various revolutionary slogans, e.g. mort aux rois! death to the monarchy!, mort aux tyrans! death to the tyrants! (both 1792 or earlier), etc.] ΚΠ 1792 Times 18 July 2/2 Ça ira then sing, And death to the King. 1794 Universal Mag. Feb. 146/2 Here all the representatives rose and took the oath, Death to the Tyrants! 1807 Weekly Inspector (N.Y.) 15 Aug. 400/2 Oh! death to the Traitor who caus'd our despair! 1869 Irish Times & Daily Advertiser 17 Aug. 3/3 Cries of ‘Long live the Republic and death to the Monarchy’ were raised by the crowd. 1894 W. T. Stead in Westm. Gaz. 7 May 2/1 The watchword of the Coxeyite agitation is ‘Death to the interest-bearing bond!’ 1960 Life 18 July 32/2 The mob was shouting death to Prime Minister Lumumba and death to all whites. 1981 M. Kester in P. Belsito et al. Streetart 47/2 The demonstrators resembled..escapees..from some exotic aviary, brandishing signs that read ‘No Wimp Rock for the 80s’, ‘Death to Hippies’, ‘Down with Disco’. 1992 L. Whisnant Watching TV with Red Chinese (1994) i. iii. 20 Fanatics trash the streets of Tehran, chanting Death to America and burning U.S. flags. < as lemmas |
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