late unpleasantness

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A recent war, especially (historical) the American Civil War. euphemistic
    — It is unlikely that anyone with significant knowledge of the Army or the late unpleasantness in Southeast Asia, upon reading these two sentences, would respond other than with a scatological barnyard expletive or some more genteel utterance representing the same level of acceptance.

词形变化

late unpleasantnesses plural
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