单词 | shit sandwich |
释义 | > as lemmasshit sandwich shit sandwich n. a very unpleasant or unfair situation; frequently as part of an extended metaphor. [The use in quot. 1966 is from an interpolation in the English version of the text, and does not have an analogue in the French original.] ΚΠ 1966 E. Williams tr. D. Spoerri Anecdoted Topogr. Chance iii. 9 Just this morning Monsieur Georges expanded the philosophical observation of one of his customers, Camille, that ‘Life is a shit sandwich’ with: ‘Yes, and we take a bite every day.’ 2004 E. Reid D.B. i. 29 Another lunchbox working-class joe who was beginning to realize that maybe the American Dream was just a big shit sandwich stacked with empty promises. < as lemmas |
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