| 单词 | outside job |
| 释义 | > as lemmasoutside job outside job n. colloquial a crime committed by a person not connected or associated with the building, organization, etc., in which it took place. ΘΚΠ society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > [noun] > crime > a crime > other general types of crime political offence1771 street crime1853 crime passionnel1892 war crime1906 inside job1908 outside job1925 single-o1930 hate crime1960 1925 A. Christie Secret of Chimneys xii. 120 Either he was killed by someone in the house, and that someone unlatched the window after I had gone to make it look like an outside job..or else..I'm lying. 1972 ‘M. Innes’ Open House ii. x. 94 Wasn't there something factitious about the whole affair? Didn't it match the hoary old formula of the inside job disguised as an outside job? 2002 Times-Picayune (New Orleans) (Nexis) 16 Oct. 1 I also suspected that if it had been an outside job that the perpetrators would have made off with a lot of merchandise. < as lemmas |
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