smoking

a smoking gun (or pistol) a piece of incontrovertible evidence.

☞ This phrase draws on the assumption, a staple of detective fiction, that the person found with a recently fired gun must be the guilty party. The use of the phrase in the late 20th century was particularly associated with the Watergate scandal in the early 1970s involving the US President Richard Nixon. When one of the Watergate tapes revealed Nixon's wish to limit the FBI's role in the investigation, Barber B. Conable famously commented: 'I guess we have found the smoking pistol, haven't we?'

2012New York Times Incoming transactions in the chief justice's accounts, including deposits and bank transfers, totaled $28,740,497.93, the documents showed. This was when Mr Corona was earning less than $935 per month as a Supreme Court justice. 'It is the smoking gun,' Ramon C. Casiple, executive director of the Institute for Political and Electoral Reform in Manila, said of the disclosure.

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释义	smoking a smoking gun (or pistol) a piece of incontrovertible evidence. ☞ This phrase draws on the assumption, a staple of detective fiction, that the person found with a recently fired gun must be the guilty party. The use of the phrase in the late 20th century was particularly associated with the Watergate scandal in the early 1970s involving the US President Richard Nixon. When one of the Watergate tapes revealed Nixon's wish to limit the FBI's role in the investigation, Barber B. Conable famously commented: 'I guess we have found the smoking pistol, haven't we?' 2012New York Times Incoming transactions in the chief justice's accounts, including deposits and bank transfers, totaled $28,740,497.93, the documents showed. This was when Mr Corona was earning less than $935 per month as a Supreme Court justice. 'It is the smoking gun,' Ramon C. Casiple, executive director of the Institute for Political and Electoral Reform in Manila, said of the disclosure.
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