orphan-crushing machine

短语

发音

US

词形变化

orphan-crushing machines 复数

别名

orphan crushing machine

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A notional machine representing a system or state of affairs that obviously facilitates suffering but is not acknowledged or examined, or for which no alternative is considered.

词源

Referencing a Twitter post by @pookleblinky on September 25, 2020: Every heartwarming human interest story in america is like "he raised $20,000 to keep 200 orphans from being crushed in the orphan-crushing machine" and then never asks why an orphan-crushing machine exists or why you'd need to pay to prevent it from being used.

来源：wiktionary