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billingsgate

/bil-ingz-geyt or, especially British, -git/US // ˈbɪl ɪŋzˌgeɪt or, especially British, -gɪt //UK // (ˈbɪlɪŋzˌɡeɪt) //

账单门,比尔森门,钞票门,比尔森门事件

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : coarsely or vulgarly abusive language.

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Examples

  • Another night we went together over to the Queen's Shades, near Billingsgate.

  • There is a keen pleasure you wot not of, my lad, in listening to Billingsgate and Spitalfields howl maledictions upon you.

  • The practice is only a modification of Billingsgate, cover it with what elegant device we may.

  • It is not yet quite a score of years since the present Billingsgate Market was completed.

  • Billingsgate fought that hard battle against royalty with great resolution, and ultimately won.