Pygmalion word

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释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The word bloody.

    英国 委婉 废旧

词源

From the 1913 George Bernard Shaw play Pygmalion, which included the line "not bloody likely" – at that point, the word "bloody" was considered scandalous. See also not Pygmalion likely.

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