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单词 to know where the bodies are buried
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to know where the bodies are buried
P5. Originally North American. to know where the bodies are buried: to have personal knowledge of the secrets or confidential affairs of an organization or individual.
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1940 H. J. Mankiewicz & O. Welles Citizen Kane (film script) 199 If you're smart, you'll talk to Raymond. That's the butler. You can learn a lot from him. He knows where the bodies are buried.
1976 R. J. Huckshorn Party Leadership in States iv. 75 I was the governor's finance chairman and I know where the bodies are buried.
2006 Scotsman (Nexis) 11 July 35 Finance directors, perhaps on the theory that they know where the bodies are buried, last 4.8 years.
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