red in tooth and claw

短语

释义与例句

adj.
  1. 1.

    Characterized by uncaring, amoral ruthlessness or brutality, especially of a kind seen as reflecting the way of things in nature.

    We love nature, but nature doesn't love us. One night in the Amazon rainforest will show us that nature is red in tooth and claw.

词源

From Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem In Memoriam A.H.H.

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