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cosa nostra

/koh-zuh -nohs-truh/US // ˈkoʊ zə ˈnoʊs trə //

我们的东西,我们的事,我们的事情,我们自己的事

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a secret association engaged in organized crime in the U.S., modeled after and affiliated with the Mafia.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Little Cafe Poca Cosa is a restaurant where vegetarians can eat very well.

  • “He was living in hiding, not from law enforcement, but from La Cosa Nostra,” the lawyer told the court.

  • Here is the best book I have read on the role of organized crime in southern Italy, John Dickie's Cosa Nostra.

  • As John Dickie tells it in his riveting and convincing Cosa Nostra, Italy's Mafia problem is not a problem born of culture.

  • Cosa Nostra is a history, not a treatise, and a gripping history at that.

  • Ella comen cierto la pltica con el mayor tiento que yo he visto tener jamas nadie en cosa.

  • In his extremity, he was rescued by La Cosa who had kept in hand a moiety of the shore party.

  • So true is the Italian proverb: Ogn' un ama la giustizia in cosa d altrui.

  • The arms presented a crowned half figure of Queen Elizabeth, with the motto, "Virginitas et unitas nostra fraternitas."

  • Majuvias, Saracenorum rex, qui nostra tate fuit, judex postulatus.