释义 |
eagle noun ▶ the eagle flies; the eagle screams; the eagle shits used for expressing payday US, 1918 Often used with “when”.- It was on a Thursday, the day before the Negro payday. The eagle always flew on Friday. — Dick Gregory, Nigger, p. 30, 1964
- But it had been a month of paydays / Since I’d heard that eagle scream. — Kris Kristofferson, To Beat the Devil, 1970
- — Current Slang, p. 18, Summer 1970
- — Hermese E. Roberts, The Third Ear, 1971
- [T]he weight of four more days (and maybe five) of clock punching and lockstepping ahead of them before the eagle flies. — Donald Goines, The Busting Out of an Ordinary Man, p. 12, 1985
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