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单词 black job
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black job
black job n. slang Obsolete a funeral.
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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.
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