词汇 | cosa nostra |
词源 | Cosa Nostra. The Italian words mean “our thing,” and the mob has adopted them as another name for the Mafia. Wrote Mario Puzo in The Godfather (1969): “ ‘Sonna cosa nostra,’ Don Corleone said, ‘These are our own affairs. We will manage our world for ourselves because it is our world, cosa nostra.’ ” |
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