gallows humor

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A form of comedy that still manages to be humorous in the face of, and in response to, a tragic or hopeless situation. US,idiomatic,uncountable
    — 1931, "German Falstaff" (review of The Mirror of Fools by Alfred Neumann), Time, 16 Jan., Author Neumann defiantly admits why he wrote this historical-romantic farce: "Because I wanted to fight against the general and my personal depression, and because in hard and bad times there is always one tragicomic feeling in place—gallows humor."

词形变化

gallows humour alternative,Commonwealth
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