dictionaryam: phalanx [plural: phalanxes, phalanges]

Sunday, April 09, 2006

phalanx [plural: phalanxes, phalanges]

Meaning: an closely knit arrray of people
In Chinese: 人牆
Where we first met: BBC News - ' ... the bodyguards form a phalanx ... '

2 comments:

sf said...: (hk slang)人肉盾牌; 25/5/06 5:03 PM
Yam 飲者 said...: phalanx是很嚴謹的正規英文，所以我沒有為它找一個對等的香港俗語。人肉盾牌感覺比較跳皮。; 25/5/06 7:20 PM

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