单词 | black job |
释义 | > as lemmasblack job ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > obsequies > [noun] > a funeral mortuaryc1450 obsequya1500 funeral1513 dole1548 burying1681 black job1785 1785 R. Cumberland Nat. Son iii. 41 We shou'd have had a terrible journey of it, if we had not luckily fallen in with a black job by the way, and kept company with the corpse to Exeter Cathedral. 1849 W. M. Thackeray Lett. (1887) 91 An expatriated parson..who gets his living by black jobs entirely and attends all the funerals of our country-men. 1876 W. P. Lennox Celebrities I. xii. 313 The ‘black job’ business. < as lemmas |
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