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stool pigeon

凳子鸽子,凳子上的鸽子,凳子鸽

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a pigeon used as a decoy.
    • : Also called stool·ie [stoo-lee], /ˈstu li/, stooly. Slang. a person employed or acting as a decoy or informer, especially for the police.

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Examples

  • He noticed her in the crowd while he was sitting on his stool between rounds.

  • Furthermore, a person with norovirus has about 70 billion viral particles per gram of stool.

  • Instead she played herself out, pigeon-holing herself into the very kind of characters she criticized Apatow for writing.

  • I try to catch the eye of this third boy, but he plops down onto a stool and avoids my gaze.

  • Wood pigeon, pheasant, partridge, grouse, peacocks, hares, wild rabbits, and waterfowl are all dietary staples.

  • Tony's stool was nearer to the bass keys of the piano, while the sofa Lettice lay upon had certainly been drawn up towards him.

  • If, now, the patient cough or strain as if at stool, the contents of the stomach will usually be forced out through the tube.

  • When bleeding piles are absent, blood-streaks upon such a stool point to carcinoma.

  • When the mucus is small in amount and intimately mixed with the stool, the trouble is probably in the small intestine.

  • A Gram-positive stool due to cocci is suggestive of intestinal ulceration.