Must-have-killed-a-chinaman Definition

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(Australia, New Zealand, offensive) A jocular explanation for bad luck.
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Origin of Must-have-killed-a-chinaman

  • Referring to a putative, and otherwise unrecorded, Anglo-Australian superstition that killing a Chinese person brought about bad luck.

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