prostitute's pupil

短语

词形变化

prostitute's pupils 复数 prostitute's pupils

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    An Argyll Robertson pupil, a characteristic sign in syphilitic eye disease.

    俚语 医学

词源

From the notional similarity in behaviour: both (the pupil and prostitute) accommodate but do not react. In the case of the pupil, it is reacting to light; and in the case of the latter, it is to the client.

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