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词组 Costa del Crime
释义 Costa del Crime
noun
Spain’s Costa del Sol UK, 1984
In the late 1970s, a diplomatic breakdown between Britain and Spain (over Gibraltar) created a safe haven for British criminals. One of the effects of a major armed robbery in London in 1983 was this journalistic coinage.
  • [T]he operation against the UK drugs gangs on what is sometimes known as the “costa del crime,” which has netted 3 tonnes of hashish so far, was continuing yesterday. — Guardian, 17 June 2003
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