peaky blinders. wikipedia字源Etymology

 

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不會吧？瘋了吧？BBC 和Netflix 將聯手再推出兩季《浴血黑幫》（Peaky Blinders）。

希望未來兩季的Thomas Shelby 泡妞不要再搞「霸道總裁」那一套。

希望未來兩季的Thomas Shelby 可以不要那麼處心積慮命苦。

裡面的車子還是可以bling bling。不反對。古董車真漂亮。

In case 你們沒看過我寫peaky blinders 典故：

Peaky 是鴨舌帽。

Blinder 是伯明翰俚語，穿著騷包閃瞎別人眼睛的人。

wikipedia

字源 四名 Peaky Blinders 成員的警方嫌疑犯照片 伯明罕歷史學家卡爾·欽恩 (Carl Chinn) 認為，這個名字指的是該幫派衣著優雅的風格。他表示，「peaky」在當時的流行用法指的是任何帶帽簷的平頂帽。 [4] 「Blinder」是伯明罕常見的俚語，至今仍在使用，用來形容衣冠楚楚的人或物。 [5] 進一步的解釋可能與該幫派本身的犯罪行為有關。他們以從背後偷偷靠近，然後將帽簷拉下遮住受害者的臉而聞名，這樣受害者就無法說出是誰搶劫了他們。 [6][7] Peaky Blinder 的民間詞源是，幫派成員會將一次性刮鬍刀片縫在平頂帽的帽簷上，然後將其用作武器。然而，由於吉列公司於 1903 年在美國推出了第一款可更換的安全剃刀系統，而第一家生產這種剃須刀的工廠於 1908 年在英國開業，因此關於該名稱起源的說法是不可考的。 [4] 來自伯明罕的英國作家約翰·道格拉斯在他的小說《漫步夏日小巷》[8] 中描述了帽子被用作武器——帽子裡縫有剃須刀片的成員會用頭撞敵人，使其失明[9]，或者用帽子劃破前額，導致鮮血流進敵人的眼睛，暫時使他們失明。

Etymology

Police mugshots of four Peaky Blinders

Birmingham historian Carl Chinn believes the name is a reference to the gang's sartorial elegance. He says the popular usage of "peaky" at the time referred to any flat cap with a peak.^[4] "Blinder" was a familiar Birmingham slang term, still used today, to describe something or someone of dapper appearance.^[5] A further explanation might be from the gang's own criminal behaviour. They were known to sneak up from behind, then pull the hat peak down over victims' faces so they could not describe who robbed them.^[6][7]

The folk etymology of Peaky Blinder is that the gang members would stitch disposable razor blades into the peaks of their flat caps, which could then be used as weapons. However, as the Gillette company introduced the first replaceable safety razor system in 1903, in the United States, and the first factory manufacturing them in Great Britain opened in 1908, this idea of the origin of the name is apocryphal.^[4] British author John Douglas, from Birmingham, said hats were used as weapons in his novel A Walk Down Summer Lane^[8] – members with razor blades sewn into their caps would headbutt enemies to potentially blind them,^[9] or the caps would be used to slash foreheads, causing blood to pour down into the eyes of their enemies, temporarily blinding them.