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单词 gallows bird
释义
gallows bird
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gallows bird: gallows birds
USAGE EXAMPLES
‘If anyone is hung for stealing cups, it will not be me. Wharf-rat, am I? You gallows bird.’
Esther Hoskins Forbes, Johnny Tremain(1943)
“And I hear you been saying I was a gallows bird?”
Rhodes, Eugene Manlove, Stepsons of Light(2010)
These suits hang swinging from the awnings like wasted gallows birds.
Footner, Hulbert, The Deaves Affair(2010)
n a person who deserves to be hanged
Hyper
scoundrel, villain
a wicked or evil person; someone who does evil deliberately
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