murderers' row

noun

A team with an exceptionally talented group of players, or that group of players.

“The cast was a murderers' row, with five Oscar winners in supporting roles.”

Meanings

murderers' row1

nounmurderers' row (plural murderers' rows)

plural murderers' rows

  1. idiomatichobbiesA team with an exceptionally talented group of players, or that group of players.
  2. idiomaticAny ensemble which comprises exceptional individuals.

    The cast was a murderers' row, with five Oscar winners in supporting roles.

    1 more example

    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, too

    2019 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

Murderers' Row2

proper noun
  1. historicalball gamesThe batting lineup of certain New York Yankees teams in the early twentieth century, most notably the 1927 team.
  2. historicalboxingA group of middleweight boxers in the 1940s.

Origin

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APA

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Chicago

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