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词组 catbird seat
释义 catbird seat
noun
an advantageous position US, 1916
Coined as a poker term, popularised in general usage by humourist James Thurber in 1942.
  • American Speech, December 1954
  • Hell, they were all finished and he was in the catbird seat now. — Mickey Spillane, Last Cop Out, p. 154, 1972
  • “Gee, that’s a shame,” Harvey said, “sitting where you are, right there in the catbird seat.” — Elmore Leonard, Stick, p. 115, 1983
  • He is in the catbird seat, with time on his hands and plenty of money and handsome Danny Quayle to take his place, if anything goes wrong. — Hunter S. Thompson, Songs of the Doomed, p. 249, October 1988
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