blue murder

短语

可怕的谋杀

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A loud protest or angry outburst.

    不可数

    And I was going to shout at him. I was going to scream blue murder. I was going to tell him just what I thought of that.

词汇关系

名词

上位词 6

call cry shout yell outcry vociferation

词源

From French morbleu (“gadzooks, zounds”, interjection) (archaic), from mort bleu (“blue death”), a minced oath of mort Dieu (“death of God”).

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