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dicky birdBrE /ˈdɪki bɜːd/NAmE /ˈdɪki bɜːrd/ noun (BrE) () a bird 鸟儿；小鸟儿 ●not say, hear, etc. a dicky bird(BrE, informal) to say, hear, etc. nothing 什么也没说（或没听见等）◆He won't say a dicky bird, but we think he knows who did it. 他什么都不肯说，但是我们认为他知道是谁干的。 ORIGIN This idiom is from rhyming slang, in which 'dicky bird' stands for 'word'. 源自同韵俚语，其中 dicky bird（小鸟儿）代表 word。 |