单词 | gallows bird |
释义 | gallows bird (once / 203782 pages) n WORD FAMILY 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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