单词 | to go home in an ambulance |
释义 | > as lemmasto go home in an ambulance colloquial. to go home in an ambulance (and variants): to get a severe beating; esp. in you're going home in an ambulance, used to threaten violence against a person or group.Popularized in the United Kingdom in the second half of the 20th cent. through its use in chants by supporters at Association Football matches, chiefly to threaten opposing away supporters, esp. as you're going home in a —— ambulance, with interpolated expletive (see e.g. quot. 1990), or with location indicated (see e.g. quot. 1992). ΚΠ 1916 R. H. Barbour Rivals for Team xvi. 195 Well, I said, ‘Lambert, if you make me lose my temper you'll go home in an ambulance. Now quit it!’ He did, too. We didn't have any trouble after that. 1990 Independent 12 Nov. 30/8 At least 400 rival fans from Millwall and West Ham did battle with police and each other... The effect on young minds of the fighting and thousands of adults bellowing at each other, ‘You're going home in a fucking ambulance’, is the stuff of which psychiatrists' nightmares are made. 1992 N. Hornby Fever Pitch (1998) 78 ‘You're going to get your fucking heads kicked in’... For a good fifteen years it was the formal response to any goal scored by any away team at any football ground in the country (variations at Highbury were ‘You're going home in a London ambulance’ [etc.]). 2019 @danhett 20 June in twitter.com (accessed 27 Sept. 2019) If he tried grabbing a woman like that around here he'd be deservedly going home in an ambulance. < as lemmas |
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