jail fodder

短语

别名

jailfodder

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A person with criminal tendencies who is considered to be expendable, worth nothing more than to occupy a jail.

    不可数

    2016, Vickie Roach, quoted in Elle Hunt, “Safe space,” The Guardian, 24 November, 2016, The history of Australia since colonisation has been telling us that we’re stupid, dumb, we’re drunks, we’re just jail fodder, we’re all criminals, we’re dirty, we can’t look after our kids, we all sniff petrol, now we do ice.

词源

From jail + fodder, i.e. food to be fed to jails. Probably by analogy with cannon fodder.

来源：wiktionary