单词 | night of the long knives |
释义 | > as lemmasnight of the long knives h. night of the long knives: see long knife n. 1. night of the long knives 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. ΚΠ 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. < as lemmas |
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