crapstain on cinema history
- noun
- Offensive
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mancha de mierda en la historia del cine
- Many critics labeled it a crapstain on cinema history.
Examples
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Years later, the director still regrets making what he calls a crapstain on cinema history.
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That film is a total crapstain on cinema history!
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Many critics consider that sequel to be a crapstain on cinema history.
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Some films are so bad they become memorable as a crapstain on cinema history.
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Many critics consider that sequel to be a crapstain on cinema history.
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Some films are so bad they become memorable as a crapstain on cinema history.
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Years later, the director still regrets making what he calls a crapstain on cinema history.
Synonyms
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8.5
Words that are false or useless
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9.9
A rude word for something that is nonsense or of very low quality
A rude word for a mark or event that badly damages someone's reputation
A thing that is very bad and not worth having
Antonyms
How Bad
Surface Forms
Morphology
crapstain + on + cinema + history
The phrase is compositionally built from 'crap' (rubbish/very poor) + 'stain' (a blemish) with 'on cinema history' indicating something that tarnishes the record; this combination transparently conveys a very negative judgment. A B1 learner who knows the constituent words and the collocation pattern 'stain on [X]' would readily infer that it means a film that is a disgrace or blemish on cinema's history.
Etymology
Crapstain on cinema history creates a picture of a nasty stain (crapstain) left on the long record of films (cinema history). It means a movie is so bad it ruins or damages that history, so the dirty image explains the strong, insulting meaning 'very bad' or 'damaging'.