cosa nostra
我们的东西,我们的事,我们的事情,我们自己的事
Definitions
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- : 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.