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murderers' row

noun — 2 senses

murderers' row

noun

Etymology From Murderers' Row.

1

Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports Idiomatic A team with an exceptionally talented group of players, or that group of players.

2

Idiomatic Any ensemble which comprises exceptional individuals.

  • The cast was a murderers' row, with five Oscar winners in supporting roles.
  • Reuniting with a murderers’ row of similarly wizened crime-movie veterans, Scorsese hasn’t just returned to reclaim the genre he nearly perfected. He’s come to bury it, too2019 October 31, A. A. Dowd, “Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro reunite for one last gripping crime epic, The Irishman”, in AV Club, archived from the original on 21 Aug 2020:
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