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单词 long knife
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long knifen.

Brit. /ˌlɒŋ ˈnʌɪf/, U.S. /ˈlɔŋ ˈˌnaɪf/, /ˈlɑŋ ˈˌnaɪf/
Inflections: Plural long knives.
Forms: Also with capital initial(s).
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: long adj.1, knife n.
Etymology: < long adj.1 + knife n.In sense 1a apparently after Welsh cyllell hir long knife (14th cent. in a translation of Geoffrey of Monmouth; the word twyll ‘treachery, deception’ appears in the same passage) and its model post-classical Latin culter longus (Geoffrey of Monmouth (12th cent.)); the underlying passage in Historia Brittonum (9th cent.) has classical Latin cultellus coutel n., apparently with reference to the short one-edged swords seen as characteristic of the Saxons, of which the Old English name seax is also cited in both Latin accounts (see sax n.1 and the note at that entry; compare long sax in Laȝamon's version of the story (l. 7592)). In treachery of the long knives after Welsh twyll y cyllyll hirion (1587 or earlier; compare quot. a1604 at sense 1a) and similar phrases. In night of the long knives after German Nacht der langen Messer (13 July 1934 (in a speech by Hitler) or earlier with reference to these events; 1931 (in an anti-Nazi essay by C. von Ossietzky in Die Weltbühne 15 Dec. 879) or earlier in the general sense ‘treacherous massacre or purge’). In quot. 1937, the intended reference is probably to the Nazi song Blut muß fließen (1928 or earlier), which contains the verse Wetzt die langen Messer auf dem Bürgersteig! ‘Sharpen the long knives on the pavement!’, but this lacks the collocation with Nacht night n. In sense 2 after Mohawk a’share’koówa, lit. ‘big knife’, a name given to Francis Howard, colonial governor of Virginia (see Big Knife n.); with this sense compare earlier Big Knife n.
1. In plural. Used in expressions denoting treacherous massacres or purges.
a. treachery (also plot, treason) of the long knives: a legendary massacre of the Britons by the Saxons under Hengist in the 5th cent.
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the world > life > death > killing > slaughter > [noun] > instance of
slaughter1483
Sicilian Vespers1586
plot of the long knivesa1604
blood feast?1611
Parisian matins1614
Parisian massacre1657
bloodbath1814
Roman holiday1818
holocaust1833
bath of blood1882
pogrom1889
bloodfest1907
blood purge1959
a1604 M. Hanmer Chron. Ireland 49 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) Through the treason of Hengist, (which the Britaines call Toill y Killill Hirion, the treason of the long knives) the Nobles and Princes of Britaine were slaine and buried.
1640 W. Vaughan Church Militant 118 The long Knives Complot, which like a Torch From time to time did their gall'd Entrailes scorch.
1820 Cambro-Briton Jan. 171 The meeting of the principal men of the Cymry and the Saxon claimants on the mountain of Caer Caradawg, where the Plot of the Long Knives took place.
1862 G. Borrow Wild Wales II. xx. 226 Hengist had commanded..that..each Saxon should draw his long sax, or knife,..and should plunge it into the throat of his neighbour... This infernal carnage the Welsh have appropriately denominated the treachery of the long knives.
1982 R. Morris Char. King Arthur Medieval Lit. iv. 52 We can see Geoffrey doing this by developing such incidents as the Treachery of the Long Knives, which demonstrates the Saxons' betrayal of universal human values.
2010 T. Duggett Gothic Romanticism ii. 77 Reversing the Treason of the Long Knives, Wordsworth makes his younger self into a civilized Gothic Saxon in need of protection from the barbarous Celtic Briton.
b. night of the long knives: (among Nazis) violent action against opponents, esp. the arrest and killing of numerous prominent rivals (notably Ernst Röhm and other leaders of the Sturmabteilung) by the Nazi leadership, 30 June–2 July 1934; hence used allusively of any similar decisive or ruthless dealings by leaders with associates or staff.
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1932 Times 2 Aug. 10/3 Prominent Nazi leaders have played upon the imaginations of their followers..with such phrases as ‘the night of the long knives’ and ‘a vengeance for every Nazi killed’.
1937 S. H. Roberts House Hitler Built ii. iii. 114 Such seem to have been the facts of this ‘Night of the Long Knives’ (the name given to it by Hitler and taken from one of the earliest marching songs of the Nazis).
1960 ‘W. Haggard’ Closed Circuit iii. 29 Many would die in any night of the long knives.
1968 J. Bingham I love, I Kill iv. 44 There was not the ‘night of the long knives’ feeling you get when a commercial management has ten thousand smackers at stake.
1989 Independent (Nexis) 4 Nov. After her own version of the Night of the Long Knives, Mrs Thatcher could be said to have taken a leaf out of Macmillan's book.
2010 B. Yenne Hitler's Master of Dark Arts vii. 86 The Night of the Long Knives turned out to be an extraordinary SS recruiting tool.
c. figurative or in figurative contexts, denoting the ruthless removal of unwanted associates or employees.
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the world > space > place > removal or displacement > [noun] > clearing or sweeping away > riddance > specifically of persons
expurgation1615
purge1893
sweep-out1947
long knives1967
1967 W. R. Manchester Death of President i. i. 93 He could be fairly confident of surviving the long knives of Austin.
1979 P. White Let. 15 July (1994) xiv. 522 The long knives will be out.
1993 Money Apr. 158/1 This special 12-page section can help you avoid the long knives.
2003 BusinessWeek 17 Nov. 65/2 The long knives are out for Japan's dashing Premier—and the knives are being pulled by party insiders.
2. North American. Frequently in plural and with capital initials. (A translation of) a name given by North American Indians to a white settler, esp. of Virginia, or a white soldier; (sometimes spec.) a citizen of the United States as opposed to a Canadian or other British subject in North America. Cf. Big Knife n. Now historical.In quot. 1806: a nickname for the U.S. Congress.
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the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > white person > [noun]
white mana1398
Christian1622
European1666
white-face1684
long knife1784
buckra1794
sahib1796
white-skin1803
whitey1811
Pakeha1817
papalagi1817
paleface1823
whitefellow1826
Abelungu1836
haole1843
gringo1849
lightiea1855
umlungu1859
mzungu1860
heaven-burster1861
ladino1877
mooniasc1880
Conchy Joe1888
béké1889
ofay1899
ridge runner1904
Ngati Pakeha1905
kelch1912
pink1913
leucoderm1924
fay1927
Mr Charlie1928
pinkie1935
devil1938
wonk1938
oaf1941
grey1943
paddy1945
Caucasoid1956
Jumble1957
Caucasian1958
white boy1958
pinko-grey1964
honky1967
toubab1976
palagi1977
the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of North America > native or inhabitant of U.S.A. > [noun]
long knife1784
Yankeec1784
Yankee Doodle1787
Columbian1789
Brother Jonathan1816
norteamericano1839
United Statesian1845
Joe1947
Yanqui1969
1784 J. Filson Adventures D. Boon in Discov. Kentucke App. 62 The savages now learned the superiority of the Long Knife, as they call the Virginians, by experience.
1788 W. Biggs Captivity 13 He again asked if I was a Shemolsea (that is a long knife or a Virginian).
1806 L. Dow Trav. & Providential Experience II. 65 But they [sc. the Indians] being afraid of Long-knife, (i.e. Congress) refrained from violence.
1827 J. F. Cooper Prairie I. v. 135 If the Tetons lose their great chief by the hands of the Long-knives, old shall die as well as young!
1838 A. Jameson Winter Stud. & Summer Rambles Canada III. 55 A distinguished Pottowottomie warrior..was..a good friend to the Long-knives, (The Americans).
1848 J. F. Cooper Oak Openings I. xi. 168 Until the ‘long-knives and leather-stockings’ came into the woods, the red man had his way.
1868 J. MacMullen Hist. Canada (ed. 2) xiii. 256 The north-western Indian tribes..cordially disliked the Americans, whom they termed Long-knives.
1908 W. R. Nursey Story Isaac Brock xviii. 100 ‘My object,’ said Brock, addressing the Indians, ‘is to assist you to drive the “Long-knives” from the frontier.’
1959 N. Sluman Blackfoot Crossing 33 Crowfoot says that the border—the medicine line—protects his people from the Long Knives.
1972 J. Mosher Some would call it Adultery iii. xvi. 147 Brought General Terry and his ‘Long Knives’, as the Indians called U.S. Cavalry, ‘up across the border, Mounted Police or no’.
1994 Indian Country Today 29 Dec. b11/4 The ‘Long Knives,’ as the soldiers were called by the Indians, claimed this was their day.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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