stone the crows
英语
编辑词源
编辑在20世纪10年代原为澳大利亚英语,“指以前看守农田并用石头砸糟蹋庄稼的乌鸦的职业”。[1]
发音
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叹词
编辑- (英國,澳大利亞,口語) 天啊 (表达惊讶或仅强调的一般化叹词)
- 1924, C. J. Dennis, “Rose Of Spadgers”, 出自 Sentimental Bloke and Other Verses, 出版於 1988,第 86 頁:
- “Why, stone the crows! I′ll look yous up,” sez ′e. / “I need some friends: I ain′t got wife nor chick.”
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- 1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books,第 141 頁:
- The he pinched himself to make sure he was really awake, "Stone the crows!" he said softly. "Stone the crows!"
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- 1988, Janette Turner Hospital, Charades,第 63 頁:
- So I says to meself: stone the crows, I′m a doomed man, might as well shoot through. It was cyclone time, see, and there′s been flash floods and this rock as big as a house has gone.
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用法说明
编辑可以和其他类似俗语一起使用,比如:stone the crows and pickle the lizards。
近义词
编辑参考资料
编辑- ↑ James Lambert The Macquarie Book of Slang (Sydney: Macquarie Library) 1996.