Idiom
autem mort
Meaning
A female beggar with several children hired or borrowed to excite charity.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The woman acted as an autem mort to get more money from people.”
“The group of travelers noticed the woman was an autem mort, using her children to gain sympathy from the crowd.”
“In the historical account of the city's underworld, the author describes how the cunning autem mort exploited public pity to secure her daily earnings.”
Examples
simple
“The woman acted as an autem mort to get more money from people.”
contextual
“The group of travelers noticed the woman was an autem mort, using her children to gain sympathy from the crowd.”
complex
“In the historical account of the city's underworld, the author describes how the cunning autem mort exploited public pity to secure her daily earnings.”
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