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词组 turkey shoot
释义 turkey shoot
noun
an overwhelming slaughter of helpless victims US, 1970
From the C19 “sport” of a shooting match in which the target was a live turkey.
  • Major Hanna, the senior advisor, had what he calls a turkey shoot. — Martin Russ, Happy Hunting Ground, p. 82, 1968
  • “They heard that Charlie Company had a turkey shoot,” Colburn recalled. — Seymour M. Hersh, My Lai 4, p. 90, 1970
  • On August 17, in a slaughter reminiscent of the Kosong Turkey Shoot, hundreds of fleeing enemy soldiers fled in daylight to the banks of the Naktong and tried to ford the river to escape a beachhead that the marines had transformed into a deathtrap. — Joseph C. Goulden, Korea, p. 179, 1982
  • As the Basra Road turkey shoot unfolded, US General Colin Powell reportedly told other members of the war cabinet [...] “We should stop now. Our pilots are just killing for the sake of it.” — Stuart Jeffries, Mrs Slocombe’s Pussy, p. 264, 2000
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