"Wigs on the green" nghĩa là gì?

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"Wigs on the green" nghĩa là đánh nhau, chiến đấu, ẩu đả. Thời xưa, đàn ông thường đội tóc giả, dễ bị tuột nếu gặp tác động).

Ví dụ
Through the day, and as night settles dark on the scene, Mirth ends with shillelagh (cây gậy), and wigs on the green.

Mr. David Balfour has a very good ground of complaint, and I think, gentlemen—if his story was properly redd out—I think there would be a number of wigs on the green.

Our oldest soldiers noticed the above with the following characteristic remark 'Hands up soldiers! For there will be wigs on the green today (i.e. dead men's heads on the grass) Here is no child's play, for Jack Frenchman is in right earnest!

This brought all the wigs on the green, and in 1885 a meeting, to which all members of the University were admitted, was held in the rooms of the “ Union ", the largest undergraduate club in Cambridge, to ascertain (xác định) the feeling of the University.


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