bad for the coo

短语

释义与例句

adj.
  1. 1.

    Harmful to the weaker party in a conflict or collision.

    过时 幽默

    Had the comet which traversed them been of any respectable weight he would have made havoc among them and bouleversed their motions. But it was a case of locomotive and cow, and it was "very bad for the coo."

    "Boys, you must "make it bad for the coo."

    1914, Ernest Bramah, The Knight's Cross Signal Problem "The accident: well, you remember all about that. An ordinary Central and Suburban passenger train, non-stop at Knight's Cross, ran past the signal and crashed into a crowded electric train that was just beginning to move out. […] For the first time on an English railway there was a good stand-up smash between a heavy steam-engine and a train of light cars, and it was 'bad for the coo.'"

词源

From a remark attributed to railway engineer George Stephenson, said to have been asked what would happen if one of the new steam locomotives ran into a cow, and to have replied that it would be "bad for the coo" (Scots for cow).

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