| 单词 | the late unpleasantness |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe late unpleasantness b. Originally U.S. Warfare; a war. Usually with modifying word, esp. in the late unpleasantness, originally with reference to the American Civil War (1861–5). ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > war > types of war > [noun] > civil war > specific civil war1712 the troubles1786 English Civil War1794 Wars of the Roses1809 the late unpleasantness1866 War between the States1867 Spanish Civil War1936 Spanish War1937 1866 D. R. Locke in Toledo (Ohio) Blade 31 July The citizens uv the Southern States which lost their lives and legs and sich in the late unpleasantness. 1870 Harper's Mag. Jan. 314/1 During the recent ‘unpleasantness’ there lived on the outskirts of an eastern town in Maine an Old Hunker Democrat of strong anti-war proclivities. 1903 N.Y. Times 19 Sept. 3 The only soldier to be killed from Orange during the late unpleasantness with the Filipinos. 1930 S. Henry Conquering Plains 33 When ‘the late unpleasantness’ terminated, the Texan drover lacked a satisfactory market. 1943 B. Bandel Let. 13 June in Officer & Lady (2004) 107 Mighty nice, when you consider that he is only running the whole air show for our entire country, in this present unpleasantness. 1948 Amer. Jrnl. Nursing 48 770/2 Among the stamps of particular interest to nurses to come out of the ‘late unpleasantness’, are a Hungarian Red Cross series,..and a German child welfare series. 1966 Constr. Methods & Equipm. Mar. 16 There is a good chance that it will be cut back..until the unpleasantness in Vietnam resolves itself. 1981 Times 25 Aug. 7/1 The British and the Germans..were all of that older generation which well remembers the late unpleasantness between our two countries. 2006 N.Y. Sun (Nexis) 31 July 9 Is the current unpleasantness in the Mideast now approaching the endgame? < as lemmas |
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