must have killed a Chinaman

短语

英文释义

短语
  1. A jocular explanation for bad luck. Australia,dated,offensive
    — 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.
4 次浏览 数据来源: Wiktionary