red wedding

短语

词形变化

red weddings 复数 red weddings

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A wedding ceremony in the Soviet Union in which the couple pledged loyalty to the state or communism in addition to reciting marriage vows.

    过时 政治 哲学
  2. 2.

    A situation involving carnage, bloodshed, or chaos; a massacre; a mass culling.

    比喻

词源

The first sense derives from red as an adjective meaning associated with or supportive of communism. The second sense derives from the Red Wedding scene in A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin.

来源：wiktionary