usual suspects

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The people, often scapegoats, routinely arrested in response to a crime. ironic,often,plural,plural-only
    — Major Strasser has been shot... round up the usual suspects.
  2. The people or things that would be routinely expected to appear in a particular context. broadly,informal,plural,plural-only
    — I think the eco-utopian picture … is an unlikely outcome. I generally avoid over-population arguments. But there’s no question we’re in population overshoot. The catch is we’re not going to do anything about it. There will be no policy. The usual suspects: starvation, war, disease, will drive the population down. There’s little more to say about that really, and it’s certainly an unappetizing discussion, but it’s probably the truth. In any case, we’re in overshoot and we face vast resource scarcities. That’s it. The “usual suspects” are already doing their thing as worldwide food prices go up and peoples on the margin begin to suffer and starve.

词形变化

the usual suspects canonical,plural

词源

The phrase was commonly used in New York in the 1930s, by both criminals and law enforcement, often with regard to baseless arrests. The phrase was popularized more broadly by its appearance in the film Casablanca (1942), especially since the 1990s.
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