"Something nasty in the woodshed" nghĩa là gì?

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"Something nasty in the woodshed" = điều kinh tởm trong rừng -> nghĩa là có điều mờ ám, phạm pháp, trái đạo đức đang được che giấu công chúng.

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The book also contains the famous phrase ‘something nasty in the woodshed’. It’s a tribute to Gibbons’ spanking comic prose (nói một cách nhàm chán) that, when it was first published, critics believed that she was Evelyn Waugh writing under an assumed name (tên giả).

Our heroine, Flora Poste, is creative, witty, and a woman before her time. I love this character, but let’s also not forget the unforgettable character of Ada Doom, who famously coined the phrase “I saw something nasty in the woodshed!” as the response to any situation in which she finds herself in a pickle. I’m laughing even as I write this….and that’s good medicine.

Ada is always shut up in her room because she saw something nasty in the woodshed but there are plenty of others ready for her particular form of worthy interference, including handsome Seth who impregnates (làm có bầu) a village girl each time the Suke Vine is in flower, Urk, who likes Water Voles and Elfeen, who stands at Ticklepenny Corner and spouts peculiar poetry.

There’s something nasty in the woodshed at Arsenal and I’m not convinced (thuyết phục) this will have changed. Just who are the ‘dark forces’ Ozil talks about? Have all the clique who seem to have let agents in to run Arsenal’s transfer policy now been removed? I fear there may be more to be discovered which will make George Graham’s brown paper envelopes look like pocket money.

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