fair cop

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A justifiable or reasonable capture or apprehension; also, broadly, a just or inescapable accusation.
    — Several other witnesses gave corroborative evidence, and a constable who helped to arrest the prisoners stated that one of them, on being taken into custody, said: “Ah, well, this is a fair cop.”

词形变化

fair cops plural

词源

Compound of fair (“just, correct”) + cop (“capture, arrest”). Attested from the late 19th century. The cop portion is originally from Northern England and is perhaps from a regional pronunciation of the now obsolete verb cap (“to capture; to seize”). Compare Scots cap (“seize, take by force”), kep (“catch”).
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