| 单词 | big sleep |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbig sleep big sleep n. (also with capital initials) [popularized by the title of Raymond Chandler's novel The Big Sleep (1939) and the 1946 film adaptation of the same name] U.S. slang (usually with the) death. ΚΠ 1939 R. Chandler Big Sleep xxxii. 277 And in a little while he too, like Rusty Regan, would be sleeping the big sleep. 1946 E. O'Neill Iceman Cometh ii. 116 All the grandstand foolosopher bunk and the waiting for the Big Sleep stuff is a pipe dream. You'll say to yourself, I'm just an old man who is scared of life, but even more scared of dying. 1997 Courier-Jrnl. (Louisville, Kentucky) 10 Aug. d6/1 As thousands of faithful descend upon Memphis this week to mark the 20th anniversary of the King's Big Sleep, they can take solace from this: Elvis may be dead, but his ability to kick-start controversy is very much alive. 2000 D. Chase in Sopranos Scriptbk. (2001) 3rd Ser. Episode 2. 226 He has ‘miles to go before he sleeps’... The sleep of death. The Big sleep. He's talking about his own death. < as lemmas |
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