fly in the buttermilk

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A black person in a predominantly white group of people. colloquial
    — You can do the same in parts of Ward Three and see black folks sprinkled like “flies in the buttermilk.” Two Districts of Columbia, two different realities.
  2. Synonym of fly in the ointment (“something that spoils something else”).
    — Discovery of this document was a fly in the buttermilk of Tattenai.

词形变化

flies in the buttermilk plural
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