English Dictionary

night of the long knives

noun

A purge, in which opponents of a regime or political party are killed or removed.

The night of the long knives was a brutal purge carried out by Hitler in 1934.

意味（1）

A purge, in which opponents of a regime or political party are killed or removed.

(It was to precede yet another night of the long knives—this one of Republican knives honed up for Truman and the new Truman-Democratic Party. But this latter would in some ways be actually a manifestation of secondary importance.)