artful dodger

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A crafty person who commits minor crimes or behaves in a rather unscrupulous manner. idiomatic
    — Meg made many moral rules, and tried to keep them, but what mother was ever proof against the winning wiles, the ingenious evasions, or the tranquil audacity of the miniature men and women who so early show themselves accomplished Artful Dodgers?
  2. One who deftly evades obstacles, pursuers, inconveniences, or other difficulties.
    — I was a pussyfoot, an artful dodger, sidestepping abandoned children, waifs and strays, foundlings, castaways, and junk-people.

词形变化

artful dodgers plural Artful Dodger alternative

词源

From the nickname of a skillful young pickpocket and rascal in Oliver Twist (1838) by Charles Dickens.
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