| 词汇 | number is up |
| 词源 | number is up. One is about to die; one has been caught in some criminal activity. This phrase may derive from the British and American military expression lose the number of one’s mess, meaning one has been killed. But the first (British) printed mention of the term in 1806 associates it with a lottery, which suggests that one’s death is a matter of luck, like a number com- ing up in a lottery. |
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