chinaman

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Englisch - Türkisch
Çinli
(isim) çinli (erkek)
{i} çinli (erkek)

Relevante Übersetzungen

john chinaman
tipik çinli
Englisch - Englisch
A Chinese person
Or, conversely, such a ball bowled with the action of a googly
A left arm unorthodox spin bowler
A ball, bowled by a left arm unorthodox spin bowler, with the wrist action of a leg break, but which spins from off to leg for a right handed batsman
offensive terms for a person of Chinese descent
a ball bowled by a left-handed bowler to a right-handed batsman that spins from off to leg
{i} offensive term for a person of Chinese descent
A native of China; a Chinese

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Chinaman on one's back
A drug addiction

The chances are that he will stay with his first love, the needle, and that the habit will lose the glorious drive and tingle that it had at first, and become the chinaman on his back who drives him like a slave to get more money to buy more junk.

Chinaman on one's back
Withdrawal symptoms
Chinaman's chance
No chance; zero possibility; a high or almost certain risk of death or failure

The Chinese, who in the mid-19th century had come to America by the tens of thousands and helped build the transcontinental railway, were on the receiving end of much prejudicial legislation. . . . In the slang wisdom of the day, sojourners from the Middle Kingdom didn't stand a Chinaman's chance..

must have killed a Chinaman
Figurative explanation for bad luck one is suffering

The left hand side of my body has really been hammered the last six months; I must have killed a Chinaman in a previous life or something, I don't know, mused Vogels.

chinaman

    Silbentrennung

    Chi·na·man

    Aussprache

    Etymologie

    () From Chinese Pidgin English. A calque of Chinese "中國人", China +‎ -man.
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