jail fodder

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person with criminal tendencies who is considered to be expendable, worth nothing more than to occupy a jail. uncountable
    — Philos grew redly truculent. ‘Look,’ he said, ‘I don’t need the advice of a lump of Jewish jailfodder—’

词形变化

jailfodder alternative

词源

From jail + fodder, i.e. food to be fed to jails. Probably by analogy with cannon fodder.
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