room meat

短语

别名

meat in the room

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Person(s) present in a passive way or to make up the numbers; bystander(s).

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    There is a scene in the film In The Loop where an MP is asked to attend an important meeting. But as he enters the room he is warned, with some menace, to keep his mouth shut tight. "What?", he asks, "You've got me here as room meat?"

词源

from the sense of "meat" that refers negatively to people as in meat puppet

来源:wiktionary