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词组 Sexton Blake; sexton
释义 Sexton Blake; sexton
noun
  1. a fake; a forgery UK
    Rhyming slang, formed on the name of a fictional detective who first appeared in 1893 and continued in print well into the 1960s. British artist Tom Keating, 1917–84, famously forged works attributed to Gainsborough, Degas, Boucher, Fragonard, Renoir and Modigliani; in 1976 he confessed to having painted 2,000 Sexton Blakes.
    • But there’s hundreds of Sexton Blakes all over the place. Haven’t you read about it in the local rag. — Anthony Masters, Minder, p. 126, 1984
    • 97% of “genuine antiques” are forgeries, fakes, duff, dud, Sexton Blakes, sham, lookalikes, replicates, all meaning worthless. — Jonathan Gash, The Ten Word Game, p. 50, 2003
  2. a cake UK, 1960
    Rhyming slang, formed on the fictional detective. Considered obsolete by Julian Franklyn, A Dictionary of Rhyming Slang, 1960; however, Ray Puxley, Cockney Rabbit, 1992, records it as “long established”.
  3. a “take” in television and films UK
    Rhyming slang, formed on the fictional detective.
    • Daily Telegraph, 17 December 1972
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