| 词汇 | home correction |
| 词源 | home correction. Wife or child beating. Says a character in Stephen King’s Dolores Claiborne, 1993: “No one calls it home correction anymore—the term has passed right out of conver- sation, so far as I can tell, and good riddance—but I grew up in the 1940s with the idea that when women and children step off the straight n’ narrow, it’s a man’s job to herd them back onto it. I ain’t tryin’ to tell you that just because I grew up with the idea, I thought it was right, though . . .” |
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