单词 | death knell |
释义 | death knell also death-knell to sound the death knell singular noun If you say that something sounds the death knell for a particular person or thing, you mean it will cause that person or thing to fail, end, or cease to exist. The tax increase sounded the death knell for the business. [+ for] It's going to be the death knell of the red deer. |
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