单词 | murder house |
释义 | > as lemmasmurder house murder house n. †(a) poetic a house of torment; (b) a house in which a murder has been committed or discovered; (c) New Zealand slang, a school dental clinic. ΚΠ OE Crist III 1624 Ðonne halig gæst helle biluceð, morþerhusa mæst. 1861 W. C. Bennett Worn Wedding-ring 116 Her lust of blood..Lapping in this vast murder-house the flood Welling from veins of the wild savage brood..slaughter'd for her mirth. 1956 Science 123 317 [It] destroys the clues as effectively as the police would if they cleaned up a murder house with soap and water. 1964 M. Bullock in J. C. Reid Bk. N.Z. 240 ‘Missed writing to-day. Had to go to the Murder House instead.’..‘You mean the Headmaster's Study?’ ‘No, the Dental Clinic.’ 1996 Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.) (Electronic ed.) 15 Jan. David Lange is the school dental nurse, whose domain was fondly named the ‘murder house’. < as lemmas |
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