英语词汇game as ned kelly的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

game as Ned Kelly. It cost nearly half a million dollars to fi- nally capture Australia’s Kelly gang, even though the band was only four in number. Ned Kelly (1854–80), the son of a trans- ported Belfast convict and a convicted horse thief himself, took to the hills with his brother Daniel when the latter was charged with horse stealing. Joined by two other desperados, the broth- ers held up towns and robbed banks for two years until the po- lice finally caught up with them. Ned Kelly became something of a folk hero, and the great deprivations he suffered led to the phrase as game as Ned Kelly. When the gang was traced at last to a wooden shanty hideout, police riddled it with bullets, burned the shack down and found Ned Kelly alive and dressed in a suit of armor. He was tried, convicted, and hanged for his crimes, without the iron suit.

词汇	game as ned kelly
词源	game as Ned Kelly. It cost nearly half a million dollars to fi- nally capture Australia’s Kelly gang, even though the band was only four in number. Ned Kelly (1854–80), the son of a trans- ported Belfast convict and a convicted horse thief himself, took to the hills with his brother Daniel when the latter was charged with horse stealing. Joined by two other desperados, the broth- ers held up towns and robbed banks for two years until the po- lice finally caught up with them. Ned Kelly became something of a folk hero, and the great deprivations he suffered led to the phrase as game as Ned Kelly. When the gang was traced at last to a wooden shanty hideout, police riddled it with bullets, burned the shack down and found Ned Kelly alive and dressed in a suit of armor. He was tried, convicted, and hanged for his crimes, without the iron suit.
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