choice word

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Something said bluntly in a scornful, often profane, manner.
    — that was because many of the people who lived there were such funny, sassy ladies who had a choice word or ten about every aspect of the others' lives.

词形变化

choice words plural

词源

In its original use, choice words referred to spoken or written text that was deemed excellent and admirable. The current idiomatic uses arose by ironic inversion.
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