词汇 | rum sodomy and the lash |
词源 | rum, sodomy, and the lash. While Winston Churchill was First Lord of the Admiralty (1911–15), he remarked acidly, in answer to a protest about British naval traditions being violated, that the traditions of the navy were “rum, sodomy, and the lash.” |
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