| 单词 | butcher's bill |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbutcher's bill butcher's bill n. ironic the list of casualties in a battle or war; (also occasionally) the financial cost of a war. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > [noun] > death roll > military butcher's bill1829 casualty returns1846 casualty list1864 body count1962 1829 F. Marryat Naval Officer i. v. 141 Having delivered his ‘butcher's bill’, i.e. the list of killed and wounded. 1881 A. M. Sullivan in Macmillan's Mag. 44 343/1 There may be politicians who would prefer the anniversaries kept in the good old style, however heavy the ‘butcher's bill’. 1969 Times 21 Mar. 10 Churchill reproached Wavell for evacuating British Somaliland with so few casualties. Wavell rightly replied that a big butcher's bill was not necessarily evidence of good tactics. 2006 Foreign Affairs Mar. 14 The losers would have to pay the butcher's bill of combat and bear the oppressor's yoke in the aftermath. < as lemmas |
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