double duty

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The performance of two roles simultaneously.
    — But if a token phenomenal feel does double duty in this way (as a token of an aspect of both the pain and our way of thinking of the pain), no extra specter of dualism arises.
  2. A cryptic device or cluing error whereby a term forms part of both the definition and the wordplay.
    — I find this anagram fascinating, a message from the god of language. Mess serves double duty here, as synonym and as anagram tip-off.

词形变化

double duties plural
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