clay pigeon
泥鸽子,白鸽,鸽子
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- : Trapshooting, Skeet. a disk of baked clay or other material hurled into the air from a trap as a target.
- : Slang. a person in a situation likely to be taken advantage of by others.
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Instead she played herself out, pigeon-holing herself into the very kind of characters she criticized Apatow for writing.
But, together, Webster, Clay, and Calhoun delayed the Civil War for 40 years.
Clay engineered the morally indefensible Missouri Compromise.
From the 1820s to the 1850s, the upper house was dominated by Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, and John Calhoun.
It just changed into something quite dark and unattractive with Clay, and was a unique moment in my artistic career.
The British had fired 143 cannon shot into the fort before the arrival of Gen. Clay.
Only the laborers on the plantations smoke small clay pipes.
They use those with long, straight stems, and both their clay and porcelain pipes are of the finest form and finish.
Papier maché buttons came in with Henry Clay's patent in 1778.
It is the custom in the English forts to make every Indian who comes to trade, a present of a clay pipe filled with tobacco.