单词 | exhibit a |
释义 | > as lemmasexhibit A c. exhibit A: the first document or object produced in court as evidence; hence transferred and figurative, an object or person considered as a piece of evidence, esp. the most important evidence. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > evidence > [noun] > object produced as exhibit1626 exhibit A1906 1902 J. M. Lely Wharton's Law Lex. (ed. 10) 303 Exhibit, a document..referred to in, but not annexed to, an affidavit... Usually the deponent merely refers to it in the affidavit as ‘the exhibit hereto annexed marked A’, or as the case may be.] 1906 E. Dyson Fact'ry 'Ands iv. 49 John was..so limp that the policeman had to hold him up, like exhibit A. 1932 W. Faulkner Light in August xv. 325 That this white man..was going..into remote negro churches..to..preach to them humility before all skins lighter than theirs, preaching the superiority of the white race, himself his own exhibit A. 1948 C. Day Lewis Otterbury Incident iv. 47 The button—let us call it Exhibit A—was found by me. 1963 K. Eble F. Scott Fitzgerald x. 158 His short stories will be the supporting evidence—The Great Gatsby is Exhibit A—of his lasting claim to attention. 1970 J. Porter Rather Common Sort of Crime xiv. 163 Pimp..tossed a crumpled looking paper bag over to the Hon. Con. ‘Exhibit A,’ said Jack the John. < as lemmas |
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