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单词 off the horn
释义

off the horn

English

Prepositional phrase

off the horn

  1. (humorous) Used to describe very hard steak, as though cut from the horn of the animal.
    • 1955, Helen Ostler Wilson, Land of My Children (page 5)
      [] the butcher's joint of beef was undoubtedly a cut off the horn.

References

  • 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary
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