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单词 snake room
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snake room
snake room n. Canadian (see quot. 1912).
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snake room1912
1912 J. Sandilands Western Canad. Dict. & Phrase-bk. 42/1 Snake-room , a side room of a basement where saloon-keepers accommodate doped or drunken people until they recover their senses, presumably a place where they ‘see snakes’.
1921 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 29 Oct. 15/2 ‘Tommy’ was one of a bunch who were swapping stories recently in the snake room.
1975 F. Kennedy Alberta was my Beat vi. 73 All adjourned to the ‘snake room’ in the basement.
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