英语词汇“in the woodpile”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

2. In phrases of the type —— in the woodpile: a situation which is adversely affected by a concealed motive or unknown factor.In early use, apparently often used in phrases regarded as euphemistic alternatives to the offensive phrase a nigger in the woodpile (see nigger n. and adj. Phrases 2b), although all such uses referring to a person by race or nationality should now be treated as likely to cause offence. Later also in more neutral allusive use.

1857 Burlington (Iowa) Weekly Hawk-eye 16 Dec. There is the blackest kind of an African in that wood pile, and we invite a close inspection and careful watch.

1887 Evening Gaz. (Monmouth, Illinois) 23 May 1/5 Prominent Irish leaders are in communication with friendly members of the assembly and senate with the view of finding out the exact character of the colored man in the wood pile.

1924 Packer Act Amendm.: Hearings before Comm. Agric. House of Representatives: Serial N (68th Congr., 1st Sess.) 82 Well, there is an Ethiopian in the woodpile somewhere.

1936 W. Stevens Let. 13 May (1967) 311 I agree that there is something wrong in the woodpile.

1977 ‘J. D. White’ Salzburg Affair xvi. 139 He was the odd man out, the African in the woodpile.

2004 Times & Transcript (New Brunswick) (Nexis) 14 July d8 High priced properties are assessed for half the value and mediocre properties assessed for double the value. Something is suspicious in the woodpile.

单词	in the woodpile
释义	> as lemmas —— in the woodpile 2. In phrases of the type —— in the woodpile: a situation which is adversely affected by a concealed motive or unknown factor.In early use, apparently often used in phrases regarded as euphemistic alternatives to the offensive phrase a nigger in the woodpile (see nigger n. and adj. Phrases 2b), although all such uses referring to a person by race or nationality should now be treated as likely to cause offence. Later also in more neutral allusive use. Π 1857 Burlington (Iowa) Weekly Hawk-eye 16 Dec. There is the blackest kind of an African in that wood pile, and we invite a close inspection and careful watch. 1887 Evening Gaz. (Monmouth, Illinois) 23 May 1/5 Prominent Irish leaders are in communication with friendly members of the assembly and senate with the view of finding out the exact character of the colored man in the wood pile. 1924 Packer Act Amendm.: Hearings before Comm. Agric. House of Representatives: Serial N (68th Congr., 1st Sess.) 82 Well, there is an Ethiopian in the woodpile somewhere. 1936 W. Stevens Let. 13 May (1967) 311 I agree that there is something wrong in the woodpile. 1977 ‘J. D. White’ Salzburg Affair xvi. 139 He was the odd man out, the African in the woodpile. 2004 Times & Transcript (New Brunswick) (Nexis) 14 July d8 High priced properties are assessed for half the value and mediocre properties assessed for double the value. Something is suspicious in the woodpile. extracted from woodpilen. < as lemmas
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