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What does "reign of death" mean?
At 1:36 of this talk show clip, the video said "soon we will drop our reign of death directly to your doorstep."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjwXeEsgmdk
What does it mean?
18 avr. 2017 13:26
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“Reign of death” is not a standard expression with a fixed meaning. It could be paraphrased as “rule of death”. I interpret it to mean something like “extremely brutal and violent regime”. Compare with the expression “reign of terror”=a period of time when a ruler controls people in a violent and cruel way.
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/a-reign-of-terror?q=reign+of+terror
"soon we will drop our reign of death directly to your doorstep." is a joke - not a very good one, though (in my humble opinion). North Korea just had a missile test that failed. So the US population won’t have to worry that the “reign of death”=missile is going to be dropped on their doorsteps.
18 avril 2017
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godttala
Compétences linguistiques
Chinois (taïwanais), Anglais, Japonais
Langue étudiée
Anglais, Japonais
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