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stone the crows

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叹词

词源

在20世纪10年代原为澳大利亚英语，“指以前看守农田并用石头砸糟蹋庄稼的乌鸦的职业”。

释义

  1. 天啊 （表达惊讶或仅强调的一般化叹词）

    Australia · colloquial · 英國

    “Why, stone the crows! I′ll look yous up,” sez ′e. / “I need some friends: I ain′t got wife nor chick.”

    1924, C. J. Dennis, “Rose Of Spadgers”, in Sentimental Bloke and Other Verses, published 1988, page 86:

    The he pinched himself to make sure he was really awake, "Stone the crows!" he said softly. "Stone the crows!"

    1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 141:

    So I says to meself: stone the crows, I′m a doomed man, might as well shoot through. It was cyclone time, see, and there′s been flash floods and this rock as big as a house has gone.

    1988, Janette Turner Hospital, Charades, page 63:

    ‘Stone the crows,’ I whispered in sheer relief.

    2008, Norman Jorgensen, Jack′s Island, ReadHowYouWant, published 2011, page 170:
近义词（2）
holy cowstone me

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