appointment in Samarra

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One's death. euphemistic
    — Perhaps if each of us could truly accept his "appointment in Samarra," the activity of that skeleton in card thirteen would not seem so threatening.

词形变化

appointments in Samarra plural

词源

Literary reference to an ancient Babylonian myth, transcribed by W. Somerset Maugham, in which Death is both the narrator and a central character.
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