bad for the coo
形容词 adj.
英文释义
形容词 adj.
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Harmful to the weaker party in a conflict or collision.
— Had the comet which traversed them been of any respectable weight he would have made havoc among them and bouleversed their motions. But it was a case of locomotive and cow, and it was "very bad for the coo."
词源
From a remark attributed to railway engineer George Stephenson, said to have been asked what would happen if one of the new steam locomotives ran into a cow, and to have replied that it would be "bad for the coo" (Scots for cow).
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