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A traditional game in which balls are thrown to break the pipe in the mouth of a figurine resembling an old woman.

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Aunt Sally

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Aunt Sally

Proper noun

UK figuratively

Japanese Meaning

伝統的な遊び。ボールを投げ、古い女性を模した人形の口にあるパイプを壊すゲーム。

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Every summer at the village fair, children and adults crowd around the Aunt Sally stall, laughing as they take turns throwing balls to knock the pipe from the mouth of the old-woman figure.

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村の夏祭りでは、子どもも大人も、老婆の人形の口にあるパイプを玉で当てて壊す伝統的なゲームの屋台に群がり、順番に投げて笑い合った。

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There were some swings, and a hooting-tooting blaring merry-go-round, and a shooting-gallery and Aunt Sallies.

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Sense（2）

(figuratively, chiefly UK) A figure drawing criticism or ridicule, especially when prejudiced or unwarranted.

But the novel is something more than a national institution; it has become the recognized channel of communication between the crank and his victims; it is the shooting gallery through which we fire our messages at that dear old Aunt Sally, the British Public.

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