dueling banjos

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释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A contest of skill in which two people try to top each other's offerings, especially one involving musical ability.

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  2. 2.

    Something typical of a stereotypic hillbilly; Something characterized by lack of education, poverty, inbreeding or lack of sophistication.

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词源

From a scene in the 1972 film Deliverance in which a tourist with a guitar gets into a picking contest with a hillbilly on a banjo, both playing parts of the song "Dueling Banjos" (originally titled "Feuding Banjos") by Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith.

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