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词组 south of the border
释义 south of the border
adverb
unacceptable US
Glasgow rhyming slang for OUT OF ORDER. Not a reference to England but (thanks to Hollywood) Mexico.
  • On the bottom of the report the doctor noted that “these women were examined from the waist up.” The Stars and Stripes headlined the story: DEPENDS ON HOW YOU LOOK AT IT, SAYS JAP DOC WHO DIDN’T GO SOUTH OF BORDER. — Newsweek, p. 65, 19 November 1945
  • [N]ot just getting hot flashes south of the border[.] — Wolfman Jack (Bob Smith), Have Mercy!, p. 89, 1995
  • He’s not packing very much south of the border. — America’s Sweethearts, 2001
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