| 释义 |
●not say, hear, etc. a dicky bird(BrE, informal) to say, hear, etc. nothing 什么也没说（或没听见等）◆He won't say a dicky bird, but we think he knows who did it. 他什么都不肯说，但是我们认为他知道是谁干的。 ORIGIN This idiom is from rhyming slang, in which 'dicky bird' stands for 'word'. 源自同韵俚语，其中 dicky bird（小鸟儿）代表 word。 See also dicky bird |