| 词汇 | snuff out |
| 词源 | snuff out. Snuff out, “to kill,” is best known as U.S. under- world slang from the 1920s, but it originated in World War I and is British in origin, deriving from the British slang snuff out, meaning “to die,” which is first attested in 1864 and was probably suggested by the snuffing out of a candle, the flame of the candle compared to the flame of life. Sadistic snuff movies of the 1980s and earlier reputedly depicit the actual killing of “actors” on the screen. |
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