英语词汇“blackbird-catching”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	blackbird-catching
释义	> as lemmas blackbird-catching blackbird-catching n. slang (now historical) taking into slavery or as indentured labour. ΚΠ 1853Blackbird-catching [see sense 3a]. 1864 J. C. Hotten Slang Dict. (new ed.) Blackbird-catching,..slang for the slave-trade. 1902 A. Lang Disentanglers xi. 303 ‘He was never in the Labour trade.’ ‘Blackbird catching?.. No.’ 1948 H. Wolhuter Memories Game-ranger 71 He presently settled down to what, in those days, was called ‘blackbird-catching’—recruiting natives for the mines without a licence. extracted from blackbirdn. < as lemmas
随便看	let something pass let something pass in silence let something rest let something ride let something rip let something stand let something walk let stand let take one's back hair down let take one's hair down let that fly stick in the wall let that fly stick to the wall let the buyer beware let the cat out of the bag let the chips fall where they may let the cobbler stick to his last let the dog see the rabbit let the genie out of the bottle let the good times roll let the grass grow under one's feet let the grass grow under one's heels let the hardest come to the hardest let the side down let the sun go down on let the sun go down on someone

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