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词组 chestnut
释义 chestnut
noun
  1. a chestnut horse UK, 1670
    • [Richard] Guest successfully explained that Red Marauder had hung badly at one stage at the far side and that he had also heard the chestnut gurgle. — Guardian, 25 February 2003
  2. a stale story or outworn jest US, 1880
    Also known as “an old chestnut.”
    • “The Customer Is Always Right”–that pony [rubbishy] old chestnut[.] — Andrew Nickolds, Back to Basics, p. 33, 1994
    • Mortal Enemies [by Brian Haig] boils down to that very old chestnut, the locked-room mystery, glossed with a contemporary frankness (gay necrophilia). — The Observer, 30 November 2002
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