shotgun wedding
英語[編輯]
詞源[編輯]
暗指新郎被新娘的親戚用霰彈槍逼上婚禮堂。
發音[編輯]
(澳洲)音頻 (文檔)
名詞[編輯]
shotgun wedding (複數 shotgun weddings)
- (俗語,俚語) 奉子成婚
- 2012, Charles W. Dunn, American Culture in Peril, University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN,頁號 48:
- If Red Skelton's joke can still elicit laughs, it is only because there is a minority who can still remember a shotgun wedding and even recall the understandings that lay behind that insistence, now seeming quaint, that a couple sleeping together should really be married.
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- (俗語) 以類似方式強行促成的關係
- 2021, Michio Kaku, The God Equation:
- But all this fails when we try to have a shotgun wedding between the two great theories of nature, relativity and quantum theory.
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