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Chinese
Etymology
Literally "to hang on the streetlamp", from the history of using lamp posts as an instrument of lynching during the French Revolution, perhaps a calque of English to the lamppost or Calque of French À la lanterne! (“To the Lamp Post!”).
Pronunciation
Verb
掛路燈
- À la lanterne: to lynch, especially lynching of the rich by the poor
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