| 单词 | toilet venue |
| 释义 | > as lemmastoilet venue 10. A small, run-down, or disreputable club, music venue, bar, etc. Also more generally: any place which is regarded as unpleasant or in poor condition. Also attributive, as toilet circuit, toilet venue, etc. ΚΠ 1970 Playboy Sept. 48/2 The depressing daytime look of second-rate clubs in third-rate towns on the toilet circuit. 1972 R. B. Read Gastronomic Tour of Mexico 123 My friend Tony Monteleone has a devastating one-word label for a place he doesn't like: it's a toilet; Chicago, of course, is a toilet with the door open; New York is The Big Toilet. 1979 I. Melchior Watchdays of Abaddon iii. 38 Here the bars were real ‘toilets’. Prostitutes—male and female—hustling their bodies. 1995 J. Miller Voxpop xii. 169 I've been in bands in the past and played just about every toilet in London. 2002 Japan Times 8 May 14/2 After eight years plying speedy garage-punk at about 1,500 gigs in toilet venues across Scandinavia..they were just about covering rent and booze bills. 2011 Newcastle (Austral.) Herald (Nexis) 12 Nov. (Weekender section) 38 There's nothing like driving past the beaches and while the mall is a bit of a toilet, it's still our mall. < as lemmas |
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