| 单词 | with extreme prejudice |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswith extreme prejudice c. U.S. euphemistic. In the jargon of the intelligence community. to terminate with extreme prejudice: to assassinate. termination with extreme prejudice: assassination. Hence in extended use (chiefly humorous) with extreme prejudice: with great vigour or effect; with finality; to an extraordinary or impressive degree. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > man-killing or homicide > murder or assassination > murder or assassinate [verb (transitive)] amurderOE murderc1175 homicidec1470 murdresc1480 murtrish1490 manquell1548 slaughter1582 massacre1591 assassinate1600 remove1609 assassin1620 to do the business for a person1759 Septembrize1794 croak1823 square1888 shift1898 to take out1900 to bump off1907 bump1914 to do in1914 to put out1917 to knock off1919 terminate1920 to give (a person) the works1929 scrag1930 snuff1932 wash1941 waste1964 wipe1968 to terminate with extreme prejudice1969 neutralize1970 snuff1973 stiff1974 1969 N.Y. Times 14 Aug. 2 His status as a double agent was reportedly confirmed by the Central Intelligence Agency, which..suggested that he either be isolated or ‘terminated with extreme prejudice’. 1974 F. Nolan Oshawa Project xvi. 105 Had he been taken out by his own people?.. He had seen some of those files with the brutal red block letters stamped diagonally across the page: Terminate with extreme prejudice. 1980 C. Pincher Dirty Tricks i. 10 A ‘termination with extreme prejudice’, as the CIA called its assassination projects in those days. 1990 C. Buckley Wet Work 5 ‘Extreme Unction’ always sounded so severe, you know? Like ‘Unction with Extreme Prejudice.’ 1992 Economist 21 Nov. 156/3 If you come upon them extending the linguistic frontiers of Gobbledom, action a scenario for their termination with extreme prejudice. Or, as Johnson would put it, kill 'em off. 2004 Weekly Standard 25 Oct. 4 I have, gingerly, suggested to my wife that we might consider turning the volume down on the [baby] monitor so that we hear only the really loud wails... This suggestion was..dismissed with extreme prejudice. < as lemmas |
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