night of the long knives

短语

长刀之夜

词形变化

nights of the long knives 复数 nights of the long knives

别名

Night of the Long Knives night of long knives

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A purge, in which opponents of a regime or political party are killed or removed.

    长刀之夜

词源

Calque of German Nacht der langen Messer, which see for more. In English it tied in with earlier uses of the motif of long knives, as in phrases like the Treachery of the Long Knives (a pseudohistorical massacre of Celts by Anglo-Saxons), used since at least the 1800s.

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