英语词组like the clappers是什么意思，短语翻译、用法及例句-英语词组固定搭配大全

like the clappers very fast or very hard. British informal

☞ Clappers may refer to the striking part of a bell, or it may refer to a device in a mill for striking or shaking the hopper in order to make the grain move down to the millstones. The phrase like the clappers developed as mid-20th-century RAF slang, and is sometimes found in the form like the clappers of hell.

1992Jeff TorringtonSwing Hammer Swing! Why should a hearse be going like the clappers through the streets of Glasgow at this time of night?

词组	like the clappers
释义	like the clappers very fast or very hard. British informal ☞ Clappers may refer to the striking part of a bell, or it may refer to a device in a mill for striking or shaking the hopper in order to make the grain move down to the millstones. The phrase like the clappers developed as mid-20th-century RAF slang, and is sometimes found in the form like the clappers of hell. 1992Jeff TorringtonSwing Hammer Swing! Why should a hearse be going like the clappers through the streets of Glasgow at this time of night?
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