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词组 grouter
释义 grouter
noun
come in on the grouter
to gain a fortuitous and unfair advantage, especially by appearing at an opportune time AUSTRALIA, 1902
The origin of this term is unknown, although one might conjecture that since grouting is the last task in a tiling job, to come in on the grouter would be to arrive when there is no work left to be done.
  • This joker reckons he was in Tobruk, but I’m a wake-up to him. Probably come in on the grouter and bludged in a base job somewhere or other. — Lawson Glassop, We Were The Rats, p. 273, 1944
  • — Jim Ramsay, Cop It Sweet!, p. 66, 1977
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