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词组 Harlem sunset
释义 Harlem sunset
noun
the blood-red line on freshly razor-slashed skin US, 1940
Harlem, New York, is a centre of the black community and figuratively used to emphasise negative black characteristics; here, combined with an allusion to “blood red sunsets”, the suggestion is that only black people get into razor fights.
  • But don’t come limping back here with an armload of bloody doctor bills if she carves a Harlem sunset in your face with a pearlhandled straight razor. — Scott Rubin, National Lampoon’s Big Book of Love, p. 9, 2004
  • Chicago overcoats, Harlem sunsets, a jorum of skee, a chippie with boss getaway sticks, giving a canary the Broderick... — Tim Dorsey, Cadillac Beach, p. 258, 2004
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