2016年9月8日 星期四

slop-pail, the likes of, after your own heart


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It was called “an Inglorious Slop-pail” of a play, and for good reason.

When the French playwright Alfred Jarry—born on this day in 1873—was fifteen, he enjoyed lampooning his physics teacher, a plump, inept man who so amused his students that he became the subject of Jarry’s first attempt at…
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after your own heart


having the same opinions or interests as you:
She's a woman after my own heart.

slop-pail - Wiktionary

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/slop-pail

Noun. slop-pail ‎(plural slop-pails) (dated) A container used for urinating or defecating when it is not possible or convenient to use a bathroom or toilet; a bedpan, a chamber pot. Commonly used in hospitals, where it is normally called bedpan.

the likes of
phrase of like
  1. 1.
    informal
    someone or something regarded as a type.
    "she didn't want to associate with the likes of me"

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