| 单词 | portuguese parliament |
| 释义 | > as lemmasPortuguese parliament Portuguese parliament n. Nautical slang a rowdy discussion in which many people speak simultaneously. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > in which many speak simultaneously buzz1628 jangle1839 Portuguese parliament1897 1897 ‘F. B. Williams’ On Many Seas 388 Of all the jabbering and wrangling and shouting to one another that I ever heard, that was the worst. It was like what sailors call a Portuguese Parliament. 1898 H. E. A. Coate Realities of Sea Life 133 They [sc. wild monkeys] could only be compared with the ‘members of a Portuguese Parliament’, where, according to Jack's idea, they are ‘all talkers and no listeners’. 1962 W. Granville Dict. Sailors' Slang 90/2 Portuguese parliament, rowdy discussion in which everybody talks and nobody listens. < as lemmas |
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