| 单词 | two-car funeral |
| 释义 | > as lemmastwo-car funeral P2. U.S. colloquial. two-car funeral and variants: used as the type of an event that is simple to plan and organize, in phrases indicating that someone is incompetent or disorganized, as couldn't organize a two-car funeral, would screw up a two-car funeral, etc.Also occasionally as one-car funeral. ΚΠ 1961 Delaware County (Pa.) Daily Times 27 Mar. 12/1 Stuart is the only guy I know who could foul up a two-car funeral. 1968 Valley Independent (Monessen, Pa.) 22 May 12/3 Alas, the world is full of bunglers. Some of them are so good they can even mess up a one-car funeral. 1971 Appleton (Wisconsin) Post Crescent 2 Feb. 23/4 The Saigon government at that point could not organize a two-car funeral. 1991 N.Y. Times Mag. 27 Oct. 36/2 Federal banking regulators are ‘a bunch of turkeys’, he announces. ‘Those guys could screw up a two-car funeral procession.’ 2006 R. Chandrasekaran Imperial Life in Emerald City (2007) ii. 37 The State people began to joke that Mobbs couldn't organize a two-car funeral. < as lemmas |
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