| 单词 | a whore of a |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa whore of a —— b. colloquial. In a whore of a ——: an unpleasant or difficult thing or situation; something regarded with contempt. ΚΠ 1891 F. B. Perkins Mike His whore of a newspaper has blackmailed people. 1928 Hound & Horn Sept. 7 So I whispered to Rory that I could only hear the water falling in the weirs, and tumbling out of his bed he cried a curse from Christ on the whore of a river that was holding us here to be plugged by the Tans for a pair of Irish bitches. 1967 R. Cowper Phoenix ii. 57 As long as they're each capable of carrying half a ton back to Carlisle over that whore of a goat-track you call a road. 2006 K. Bruen Priest (2007) 257 My wife got a heart attack two weeks after, isn't that a whore of a thing? < as lemmas |
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