東野圭吾の "The Devotion of Suspect X" を読んでいます。
“I thought you physicist types didn’t like talking in the abstract.”
“I can be more concrete, if you like. How are we doing on time?”
“I’m still good.”
“Still have time to drop by the lunch shop?”
Ishigami glanced at his friend before returning his gaze to the path ahead. “I don’t buy lunch there every day, you know.”
“Really? I heard you did. Well, almost every day.”
“Is that your smoking gun that links me to this case?”
“Yes and no. If you were simply buying your lunch at the same shop every day, that wouldn’t mean anything, but if you were going to meet a particular woman every day, that’s something no interested observer could overlook.”
"smoking gun" は銃を撃った証拠の煙を意味している事を何かの本で見た覚えはありますが、実際の文章で使われているのを読むのは初めてです。辞書を見ます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: A piece of incontrovertible incriminating evidence.：‘the trial's long-awaited smoking gun failed to surface’
・Collins Dictionary: A smoking gun is a piece of evidence that proves that something is true or that someone is responsible for a crime.: The search for other kinds of evidence tying him to trafficking has not produced a smoking gun.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: information that proves who committed a crime: The tape recordings provided prosecutors with the smoking gun they needed to prove he'd been involved in the conspiracy.
“I thought you physicist types didn’t like talking in the abstract.”
“I can be more concrete, if you like. How are we doing on time?”
“I’m still good.”
“Still have time to drop by the lunch shop?”
Ishigami glanced at his friend before returning his gaze to the path ahead. “I don’t buy lunch there every day, you know.”
“Really? I heard you did. Well, almost every day.”
“Is that your smoking gun that links me to this case?”
“Yes and no. If you were simply buying your lunch at the same shop every day, that wouldn’t mean anything, but if you were going to meet a particular woman every day, that’s something no interested observer could overlook.”
"smoking gun" は銃を撃った証拠の煙を意味している事を何かの本で見た覚えはありますが、実際の文章で使われているのを読むのは初めてです。辞書を見ます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: A piece of incontrovertible incriminating evidence.：‘the trial's long-awaited smoking gun failed to surface’
・Collins Dictionary: A smoking gun is a piece of evidence that proves that something is true or that someone is responsible for a crime.: The search for other kinds of evidence tying him to trafficking has not produced a smoking gun.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: information that proves who committed a crime: The tape recordings provided prosecutors with the smoking gun they needed to prove he'd been involved in the conspiracy.
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