night of the long knives

名词 n.
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英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A purge, in which opponents of a regime or political party are killed or removed.
    — (It was to precede yet another night of the long knives—this one of Republican knives honed up for Truman and the new Truman-Democratic Party. But this latter would in some ways be actually a manifestation of secondary importance.)

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nights of the long knives plural night of long knives alternative Night of Long Knives alternative Night of the Long Knives alternative

词源

Calque of German Nacht der langen Messer, which see for more. In English it tied in with earlier uses of the motif of long knives, as in phrases like the Treachery of the Long Knives (a pseudohistorical massacre of Celts by Anglo-Saxons), used since at least the 1800s.
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