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词组 Indian giver
释义 Indian giver
noun
a person who retracts a gift US, 1892
From an earlier sense of one who expects a gift in return when giving a gift. Given the treatment of Native Americans by white Europeans and Americans, this is one of the most richly ironic terms in the lexicon.
  • [O]ur only problem is that the world is an Indian giver. — Glendon Swarthout, Where the Boys Are, p. 183, 1960
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