split the blanket
动词 v.
英文释义
动词 v.
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To terminate a marriage or marriage-like relationship; to divorce or permanently separate.
— It mattered to no one that he already had a wife, a white woman named Eliza Allen: they'd split the blanket and dwelt apart, and among the Indians, the Indian marriage took, though not for life nor even long.
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To dissolve a partnership.
— "Well, I reckon that splits the blanket," said Will. "Now he knows we ain't buyin' his shakedown, I reckon he'll loose them pet Comanches on us."
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