Chinese water torture

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A form of torture in which water is repetitively dripped onto the forehead of a victim who is restrained. uncountable
    — It has come to be known as Chinese water torture, but was actually invented by a sixteenth-century Italian lawyer named Hippolytus de Marsiliis.
  2. Any repeated irritation that builds to deliver cumulative damage. broadly,idiomatic,uncountable
    — The growth of subsidies is a Chinese water torture on individual liberty.
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