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单词 nut-cutting
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nut-cutting
nut-cutting n. U.S. slang (a) castration; (b) disagreeable but necessary business.
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1968 W. Safire New Lang. Politics 296 Nut-cutting, dirty work; a slang allusion to castration... To ‘get down to the nut-cutting’ means to abandon broad policy discussion and deal with hard specifics of patronage and pecking order.
1969 H. S. Thompson Let. 5 Oct. in Fear & Loathing in Amer. (2000) 212 I have to get out a two-page mind-bender on local politics—threatening the freaks with mass nut-cutting if they fail to register and vote.
1990 R. Blount First Hubby 37 I am here to learn about politics, pardon my French, at the nut-cuttin' level.
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