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"Pound of flesh" nghĩa là gì?
25 Oct, 2020
"Pound of flesh" -> nghĩa là điều gì đáng lẽ được nhận nhưng lại không thể đòi từ người khác.
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The mob (đám đông) is coming for the bust of Stewart outside a little used, locked entrance (cửa ra vào) of the Hamilton County Courthouse to exact its pound of flesh. It's coming because the bust of the onetime Confederate soldier is convenient. It's coming because the mob needs to say it Did Something.
The NCAA enforcement staff may come to the same conclusion, or it has the right to accept LSU’s suggested sanctions (phê chuẩn). The NCAA floated the idea of a postseason ban, but LSU pushed back against that. Still, that suggests the NCAA may want more than the pound of flesh LSU has offered.
They entertain us, amuse us, and shock us. They are politically powerful, they get celebrities to apologise, and companies to backtrack (rút lui). Trolls lurk in every digital corner, and the numbers are only growing. They are ferocious when demanding their pound of flesh – and increasingly, they seem to be getting it. The latest is Tata owned Tanishq jewellery that had to withdraw its advertisement featuring a hindu-muslim marriage, after severe backlash on social media.
“Kamala took her pound of flesh on coronavirus like she needed to, and Pence gave Republicans something to talk about for the next 28 days,” said Joel Payne, a Democratic strategist (chiến lược gia) who worked for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign.
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