Weekend at Bernie's

名词 n. 动词 v.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A situation in which someone pretends that a dead person (or by extension, any entity) is still alive. idiomatic,no-plural,slang
    — A Weekend at Bernie's acted out on the gray and black stage of frozen stone. Someone laughed and was immediately hushed by their own sense of shame.
动词 v.
  1. To move a dead body, or otherwise a nonresponsive person (such as due to illness or intoxication), while pretending that the person is alive and conscious. slang
    — I could only imagine that Rupert L. was standing Rupert P. upright with one hand and waving Rupert P.'s arm with the other. (And seeing the pictures later, I was totally right.) Rupert P. had been Weekend at Bernie's-ed after all.

词形变化

Weekend at Bernie's present,singular,third-person Weekend at Bernie's-ing participle,present Weekend at Bernie's-ed participle,past Weekend at Bernie's-ed past Weekend at Bernie's'd participle,past Weekend at Bernie's'd past

词源

词源 1
From the movie Weekend at Bernie's (1989), in which two men attempt to conceal the death of their boss by puppeteering his corpse.
词源 2
From the movie Weekend at Bernie's (1989), in which two men attempt to conceal the death of their boss by puppeteering his corpse.
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