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单词 son of a gun
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son of a gun

/ˌsʌn əv ə ˈɡʌn /
informal, chiefly North American A jocular or affectionate way of addressing or referring to someone: he’s a pretentious son of a gun, but he’s got a heart of gold...
  • As I bent to pick it up, I noticed the silvery glint of the top of a can and a bit of green label through one of the torn corners and awareness dawned: son of a gun, my Old Man had come through for me!
  • I knew I'd get a laugh sooner or later from this son of a gun.
  • If it takes another day, another week, a month, another five years, we are going to get this son of a gun.
With reference to the guns carried aboard ships: the epithet is said to have been applied originally to babies born at sea to women allowed to accompany their husbands
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