catch-'em-alive-O
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名词 n.
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A live-trap (trap designed to catch animals without killing them).
— 1855-1857, Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit There were views, like and unlike, of a multitude of places; and there was one little picture-room devoted to a few of the regular sticky old Saints, with sinews like whipcord, hair like Neptune’s, wrinkles like tattooing, and such coats of varnish that every holy personage served for a fly-trap, and became what is now called in the vulgar tongue a Catch-em-alive O.
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