| 单词 | pinkerton man |
| 释义 | > as lemmasPinkerton man Of, relating to, or denoting a detective, esp. an officer or member of the detective agency formed by Allan Pinkerton in 1850. Esp. in Pinkerton detective, Pinkerton man. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > secret observation, spying > procedures used in spying > [adjective] > relating to private detection Pinkerton1874 Pinkertonian1886 Holmesian1929 private eye1946 Sherlock Holmesian1958 Sherlockian1959 1874 Inter Ocean (Chicago) 24 Mar. 8/3 It is known that the Pinkerton men, backed by the employes of the Iron Mountain Railway,..are still in the field. 1875 Sedalia Daily Democrat 4 Apr. 1/7 Three detectives, supposed to be of the Pinkerton gang. 1887 Courier-Jrnl. 21 Jan. 2/5 Thomas Hogan..was shot and killed by one of the Pinkerton men. 1915 A. Conan Doyle Valley of Fear ii. vi. 278 At this very moment there is a Pinkerton detective, one Birdy Edwards, at work in the valley. 1955 D. W. Maurer in Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. No. 24. 38 One..pickpocket, so popular that when he killed a Pinkerton detective more than a hundred thieves..poured in to testify successfully in his defense. 1973 L. Hellman Pentimento (1974) 177 Hammett..didn't much like to be around people who took dope, in his Pinkerton days he had been more afraid of them than of murderers. 1989 T. M. Albert Tales Ulster Detective 32 The two ‘Pinkerton’ men arrived at the box-office to be greeted by the owner. < as lemmas |
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