| 单词 | cigar-store indian |
| 释义 | > as lemmascigar-store Indian cigar-store Indian n. an effigy of a North American Indian, placed outside a cigar-store; also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > shop-front > sign or signboard > specific ale stake1396 ale-pole1523 pole1533 three golden balls1748 cigar-store Indian1926 1926 E. Hemingway Fiesta (1927) ii. xv. 178 All we could see of the procession..were the great giants, cigar-store Indians, thirty feet high. 1952 B. Malamud Natural 172 What she saw in this half-bald apology for a cigar store Indian had him beat. 1963 S. Mitchell Sables spell Trouble iv. 40 I'd got about as much rise out of him as I would out of a cigar-store Indian. < as lemmas |
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