rogues' gallery

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A set of pictures of convicted or suspected criminals used in law enforcement investigations to help witnesses identify suspects.
    — When the policemen arrest a man . . . if there is good reason to suspect him, they take his picture before they let him go. . . . Then they put the picture up in the rogues' gallery among the others, where everybody who comes there can see it.
  2. Any group of lawbreakers or other disreputable characters. broadly,idiomatic
    — By 1859, D. Morier Evans was exhibiting [George] Hudson as the principal character in his rogues' gallery entitled "Facts, Failures and Frauds"; and at the hands of modern economic historians he has been written down as a common swindler.
  3. The set of supervillains associated with a particular superhero or comic book title.

词形变化

rogues' galleries plural rogue gallery alternative

词汇关系

相关词
murderers' row

词源

From rogue + gallery. Popularized by American detectives Allan Pinkerton and Thomas F. Byrnes.
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