gazelle in the garden

短语

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Used during a meal to alert a family member or friend that they have a crumb on their face.

    非正式 委婉

    At one of their literary dinners, should a crumb get caught in the luxuriant Fields beard — "There's a gazelle in the garden, Jamie," his wife would say.

词源

Possibly from an Arabic word that means both beard and garden.

来源：wiktionary