ＰＢを読んでいて、気になる表現、謎の表現、変わった表現を集めてみました。


☆Artemis Fowl and the Opal Deception by Eoin Colfer から

 I thought I might have food poisoning, but it turns out 
to be just a twenty-four-hour bug. The local doctor says 
I will be fine tomorrow. (P94)

twenty-four-hour bug: 一日だけで終わってしまうような症状。原因は不明か(?)






☆The Face of Justice by Bill Blum から

 Nova recoiled at what he saw,like a man who had been hit
with a taser gun. The few dead bodies he had glimpsed firsthand
in his life, as a child at Catholiec funerals, had all been
carefully washed, dressed to the nines, and looked merely asleep.(P212)

dress to the nines :正装して着飾る