English Explanatory Dictionary

must have killed a Chinaman

English dictionary entry

Meanings

phrase

A jocular explanation for bad luck.

Pronunciation

en-au-must have killed a Chinaman.ogg

Word forms

must have killed a Chinaman

Etymology

Referring to a putative, and otherwise unrecorded, Anglo-Australian superstition that killing a Chinese person brought about bad luck.

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