sawbones
noun [ C ] informal uk/ˈsɔː.bəʊnz/ us/ˈsɑː.boʊnz/ sawbones
外科医生，医生（非常口语化的说法）
an informal way of referring to a doctor, especially a surgeon (= a doctor specially trained to perform medical operations)
The gloomiest prognosis comes from a sawbones at Leeds General Infirmary, who suspects that the star player has a stress fracture. 最悲观的预后来自利兹综合医院的一名医生，他怀疑这位明星球员有应力性骨折。
If an orthopaedic surgeon is a sawbones and a clinical psychiatrist is a shrink, what nicknames might be appropriate to other trades and professions? 如果外科医生叫“sawbones”，临床精神病医生叫“shrink”，那么对于其他行业和职业来说，什么样的绰号才是合适的呢？
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- The team have an injury list to scare the most hard-working sawbones.
- The type of amputation performed in the Civil War era by a surgeon called a sawbones was straight across the leg, with all bone and soft tissue severed at the same level.
- A silly, selfish hypochondriac demands that his daughter marry a doctor she doesn't love just so he can have a sawbones nearby.