| 词汇 | night of the long knives |
| 词源 | night of the long knives. On the night of June 29, 1934 Hit- ler and his allies killed or had imprisoned a number of Nazi party members he wanted out of the way. Since then a night of the long knives has meant “a time when an act of great disloyalty is done,” especially when several people form a conspiracy to do it. |
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