| 单词 | the circus |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe Circus the Circus, a nickname for the British Secret Service (see quot. 1982). ΘΚΠ society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > political police > [noun] > secret service or police > British Special Branch1883 security service1918 MI5?1921 MI6?1921 firm1952 the Circus1963 S.B.1964 six1969 1963 ‘J. le Carré’ Spy who came in from Cold vi. 51 Who's that man in the Labour Exchange—Pitt? Wasn't he in the Circus during the war? 1974 ‘J. le Carré’ Tinker, Tailor iv. 36 In your day the Circus ran itself by regions... Control sat in heaven and held the strings. 1979 H. McLeave Borderline Case i. 3 The Georgian house where his section of the Circus worked. 1982 Verbatim Spring 1/2 Circus is highly ambiguous jargon for ‘London headquarters’; the word refers to the address at Cambridge Circus, but the expression the Circus also carries negative connotations of frivolity and confusion. 1984 B. Reid So Much Love xii. 235 He came to me..only to get some information; to use my brain, which had been so invaluable to them when I was in what they called the Circus, in the Secret Service. < as lemmas |
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