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词组 canter
释义 canter
noun
the speed with which a prisoner believes that his prison sentence will race by UK: SCOTLAND
From conventional “canter” (a horse’s easy speed of movement, not quite a gallop), thus a prisoner’s boast of an “easy ride.”
  • It was six months, likely to serve three. “Six moon,” as they put it in here; or more probably “six moon–canter,” in predicting the ease with which they intended to see it out. — Christopher Brookmyre, Boiling a Frog, p. 40–41, 2000
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