Cheese it:(警察!)快跑!
看警匪片一桩毒品买卖正要成交,忽听警笛由远而近呼啸而来,随即听到某个毒贩吼出一句Cheese it, the cops,众人开始四散逃窜 看片时,cops(警察)是听明白了,只是这Cheese it颇让人丈二和尚摸不着头脑。
Cheese it在俚语中指停下手头的活儿。词源学解释说,cheese实质上是cease(停止)的讹音,而cheese it则是黑社会的行话,用于祈使句,常与cops连用,指(警察来了!)快停止交易,赶快逃命!
值得一提的是,cheese在俚语中也指头目,如:He's the big cheese here.(他是这儿的老板。)
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