[每日] donnybrook (n) 大混亂
Word of the Day (Thursday October 2, 2008)
donnybrook \DON-ee-brook\, noun:
Pronunciation: http://0rz.tw/db4SI
1. A brawl; a free-for-all.
2. A heated quarrel or dispute.
But this was the beginning of Tommy's years of fighting back, a
period that ended in a donnybrook conducted all over the O'Connor
house.
-- Tracy Kidder, Home Town
Wine and talk flow freely, so much so that the meal ends with a
Rooney family donnybrook over, typically enough, religion and
politics.
-- Howard Frank Mosher, "24 Hours in Due East, S.C.", New York
Times, April 7, 1991
The author finds few villains in "West Virginia's Battle of the
Books," which describes a donnybrook over the content of public
school textbooks during the mid-70's in the "seemingly placid
community" of Charleston, W. Va.
-- Kaye Northcott, "Round Up the Usual Enigmas", New York Times,
February 23, 1992
A donnybrook is so called after Donnybrook, Ireland, a suburb of
Dublin that once held an annual fair known for its brawls.
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