usual suspects

短语

词形变化

the usual suspects 复数 only 复数

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The people, often scapegoats, routinely arrested in response to a crime.

    仅复数 法律
  2. 2.

    The people or things that would be routinely expected to appear in a particular context.

    非正式 仅复数 引申义

词源

The phrase was commonly used in New York in the 1930s, by both criminals and law enforcement, often with regard to baseless arrests. The phrase was popularized more broadly by its appearance in the film Casablanca (1942), especially since the 1990s.

来源：wiktionary