a short drop and a sudden stop

短语

发音

UK /ə ˌʃɔɹʔ ˈdɹɒp ən ə ˌsʌdn̩ ˈstɒp/
AU

别名

a quick drop and a sudden stop

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A fall to one's death by hanging.

    习语

    > But, yeah, the death penalty is a little stiff just for pretentious writing. > Punning now… it’d be a capital idea, there. Let’s not start _that_ row. Give it a quick drop and a sudden stop, rather than letting them hang…

    If you were lucky enough to survive all this lunacy, you always risked capture. There your story would end with a quick drop and a sudden stop, for piracy was punishable by hanging.

词源

Popular due to the internal rhyme of drop with stop.

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