"Dead man walking" nghĩa là gì?
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"Dead man walking" = người chết đi bộ -> nghĩa là tử tù đang đi đến nơi hành quyết; nghĩa khác là người trong hoàn cảnh khó khăn, không thể cứu vãn.
Ví dụ
What’s that phrase? Dead man walking? “The poor bastard (thằng khốn),” one can imagine a bit player saying in the movie version of this moment. This week’s “Jeopardy!” is a time capsule from before the apocalypse, honeymoon photos printed the day after the divorce becomes final.
6PR broadcaster Oliver Peterson says Victorian Liberal leader Michael O’Brien is a “dead man walking” and “can’t survive” the leadership spill which is expected to take place tomorrow morning.
A scrapyard (bãi phế liệu) worker in Perak has been carrying a “dead man walking” label for the past three years, no thanks to an error made by his sister when his brother passed on.
She was taken a bit aback but said, Yes, señor, very much. ‘Well,’ I said, ‘you should spend as much time with him as possible, because he’s a dead man walking. It’s just a matter of time and time is running out’ … She was a very smart woman married to a revolutionary.
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