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Значение идиомы boot hill

[boot hill] {n.} A cemetery in the old Wild West where cowboys and cops and robbers used to be buried with their boots on. Hence, jokingly, any cemetery.

Good old Joe, the cowboy, is resting comfortably in the nearby boot hill.


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