must have killed a Chinaman
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英文释义
短语
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A jocular explanation for bad luck.
— It appeared as though someone in the Battalion must have killed a Chinaman, as the weather continued rough and stormy, with strong wind.
词源
Referring to a putative, and otherwise unrecorded, Anglo-Australian superstition that killing a Chinese person brought about bad luck.
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