| 单词 | throat-slitting |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthroat-slitting C5. Objective and locative, as throat-clutching, throat-slitting; throat-swollen adj., etc. ΚΠ a1661 B. Holyday tr. Juvenal Satyres (1673) x. 191 Nero did..ne're contract With one throat-swoln, gor-bellied, or crump-back'd. 1846 Bentley's Misc. Jan. 547 As to homicide,—if by that phrase you mean throat-slitting,—why, my belief is..there is not a man who would by the hands of others do it more unscrupulously than yourself. 1860 J. L. Motley Hist. United Netherlands II. xv. 218 He felt that threats of throat-cutting were not the best means of smoothing and conciliating. 1924 Times 18 July 15/4 There may not be..any single moment of quite such writing, throat-clutching silence as that of waiting for the start of a quarter between two mighty rivals. 1941 W. J. Cash Mind of South i. i. 9 Ragged, throat-slitting Highlanders, lusting for elbow-room and still singing hotly of Bonnie Prince Charlie. 2014 R. Edwards Naming Jack the Ripper iv. 81 Some experts believe that she actually had a heart attack before the throat slashing. < as lemmas |
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