Hanoi Hilton

专有名词

英文释义

专有名词
  1. Hỏa Lò Prison in Vietnam, where prisoners of war were held and tortured. US,euphemistic,historical,slang
    — The Hilton Hanoi Opera hotel has opened, a few blocks from Hoa Lo, the infamous “Hanoi Hilton” where American prisoners were held during the Vietnam War. (The few remaining cells of that prison have been preserved as a museum.)

词形变化

the Hanoi Hilton canonical

词源

From Hanoi + Hilton.
An alliterative construction, pairing the location Hanoi (metonymically referring to North Vietnam) with a word referring to lodgings. An ironic reference to the Hilton chain of luxury hotels.
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