2024年9月30日 星期一

incapacitated, stitch-up, someone/something is a gas. The unemployed man still has to financially support his incapacitated wife and their child. He resorts to entering bigamous marriages with wealthy widows, killing each of them in turn.


In the film, a bank teller is fired after three decades of work. The unemployed man still has to financially support his incapacitated wife and their child. He resorts to entering bigamous marriages with wealthy widows, killing each of them in turn. Years later, the con man goes bankrupt and loses his family. During a dinner with an old acquaintance, he is recognized by the family of one of his victims. He is sentenced to death in a murder trial, but compares his relatively few victims to the millions of people killed in wars waged for profit. The film ends with the killer heading to his execution.


"I think it would have been a gas to review DRACULA when it came out in 1897. It’s so creepy...You never quite know what’s going on, but you know it isn’t good! I bet it knocked the Victorians flat." Mary Ann Gwinn on DRACULA, well-read Seattle, and more.


The attempted stitch-up has insulted Algerians, who have taken to the streets to voice their displeasure

someone/something is a gas - definition and synonyms

  1. used for saying that someone/something makes you laugh a lot
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stitch-up

Dictionary result for stitch-up

noun
INFORMALBRITISH
  1. an act of placing someone in a position in which they will be wrongly blamed for something, or of manipulating a situation to one's advantage.

    "he called the deal a stitch-up and said other companies were prevented from submitting higher bids"

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