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单词 to terminate with extreme prejudice
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to terminate with extreme prejudice
c. U.S. euphemistic. In the jargon of the intelligence community. to terminate with extreme prejudice: to assassinate. termination with extreme prejudice: assassination. Hence in extended use (chiefly humorous) with extreme prejudice: with great vigour or effect; with finality; to an extraordinary or impressive degree.
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1969 N.Y. Times 14 Aug. 2 His status as a double agent was reportedly confirmed by the Central Intelligence Agency, which..suggested that he either be isolated or ‘terminated with extreme prejudice’.
1974 F. Nolan Oshawa Project xvi. 105 Had he been taken out by his own people?.. He had seen some of those files with the brutal red block letters stamped diagonally across the page: Terminate with extreme prejudice.
1980 C. Pincher Dirty Tricks i. 10 A ‘termination with extreme prejudice’, as the CIA called its assassination projects in those days.
1990 C. Buckley Wet Work 5 ‘Extreme Unction’ always sounded so severe, you know? Like ‘Unction with Extreme Prejudice.’
1992 Economist 21 Nov. 156/3 If you come upon them extending the linguistic frontiers of Gobbledom, action a scenario for their termination with extreme prejudice. Or, as Johnson would put it, kill 'em off.
2004 Weekly Standard 25 Oct. 4 I have, gingerly, suggested to my wife that we might consider turning the volume down on the [baby] monitor so that we hear only the really loud wails... This suggestion was..dismissed with extreme prejudice.
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