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sick burn

2025年04月22日 | 英単語
Kotaro Isakaの小説 "The Mantis" を読んでいます。

‘Okay, so what can you make fun of someone about?’
‘Let’s see.’ Kabuto thought about it for a moment. ‘Their snacking habits. That’s something they have complete control over. You can say, “Ha ha, you just can’t stop snacking at night, can you?” Or something like that.’
‘Right. Sick burn, Dad.’ Katsumi rolled his eyes. ‘So what should I do if someone says to me that my dad is a lame corporate nobody?’

"Sick burn" の意味を調べます。

・Merriam-Webster: a cutting remark intended to embarrass or humiliate someone —used chiefly in the phrase sick burn: During a lecture on conservatism at an Ivy League university, a 65-year-old guest speaker delivered a sick burn to the president of the United States.
・Wiktionary: (slang) A particularly cutting insult.
・Urban Dictionary: to insult someone on an elevated level; to put someone down to the lowest; usual victims of a "sick burn" will be the guy in your school who tucks his plaid shirt into his pants and clips a cell phone on his belt a good way to know if you've been sick burned is that whoever has burned you will immediately shape his hands like two guns and imitate blowing the smoke off them on at a time and will say in a baratone voice : "sick burn", possibly with a clever smirk on his face.. you must have a mustache and a red leather jacket to sick burn someone

この小説は俗語が多いですね。
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