Shawinigan handshake扼住某人的脖子

【使用地区】：加拿大

【释义】：

To give someone a Shawinigan handshake means to strangle him．Here’s one that hasn’t made any dictionary yet．It is named after the mill town of Shawinigan in Québec，Canadian prime minister Jean Crétien’s hometown．It seems that the prime minister once“literally wrung the neck of a protester who got close to him at a Flag Day rally in Ottawa”(New york Times，October 28，1998)，and Canadians took to calling any such throttling a Shawinigan handshake．

To give someone a Shawinigan handshake的字面意思是“给某人一个Shawinian式的握手”，意为“扼住他的脖子”。这是一个还没有收进词典的词语。魁北克的Shawinian镇是加拿大总理让·克里斯蒂安的家乡。据说有一次，这位总理“扼住了一个在渥太华参加国旗日集会游行者的脖子”(《纽约时报》，1998年10月28日)。后来加拿大人称掐别人的脖子为“Shawinian式的握手”。