英语词汇to paint a house的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	to paint a house
词源	to paint a house. To kill or assassinate someone. The expres- sion is used as the title of Charles Brandt’s expose “I Heard You Paint Houses”: Frank “the Irishman” Sheeran and the Inside Sto- ry of the Mafia, the Teamsters, and the Last Ride of Jimmy Hoffa (2004). The book’s title, in fact, comes from the first words Sheeran says Hoffa ever spoke to him. “To paint a house,” Sheeran explains, “is Mafiaese for killing someone, from the blood that splatters all over the wall . . .”
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