词汇 | seven-sided animal |
词源 | seven-sided animal; seven-sided son of a bitch. A one-eyed man or woman: “each having a right side and a left side, a fore side and a back side, an inside and an outside, and a blind side.” The expression originated in the late 17th century and lasted until the early 20th. A western U.S. variant was seven-sided son of a bitch. |
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