murderers' row
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Murderers' Row.
Noun
[edit]murderers' row (plural murderers' rows)
- (sports) A team with an exceptionally talented group of players, or that group of players.
- Any ensemble which comprises exceptional individuals.
- The cast was a murderers' row, with five Oscar winners in supporting roles.
- 2019 October 31, A. A. Dowd, “Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro reunite for one last gripping crime epic, The Irishman”, in AV Club[1], archived from the original on 21 August 2020:
- 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