单词 | cat melodeon |
释义 | cat melodeon/ˈkat mɪˌləʊdɪən![]() adjective Northern Irish informal Extremely bad or unpleasant; awful: putting them on directly before us was absolutely cat melodeon altogether...
Origin1980s: possibly from Irish cat marbh 'mischief, calamity', or an abbreviation of catastrophe + melodeon; or perhaps from a comparison between the sound of a melodeon and that of a cat wailing. |
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