Sherlock Holmes

English Pronunciation en /ˌʃɜɹ.lɒk ˈhoʊmz/ en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Sherlock Holmes.wav Southern England Proper noun A series of novels by Arthur Conan Doyle about a consulting detective with keen observational awareness, astute logical reasoning and professional forensic skills; also related media based on the books, such as movies. The fictional detective who is the protagonist of the series. V & XX, XII “Oh, hullo, Mrs Cream.” The woman she was addressing was tall and thin with a hawk-like face that reminded me of Sherlock Holmes. She had an ink spot on her nose, the result of working on her novel of suspense. [...] This was the first time I had seen Ma Cream today, she having gone off around noon to lunch with some friends in Birmingham, and I would willingly not have seen her now, for something in her manner seemed to suggest that she spelled trouble. She was looking more like Sherlock Holmes than ever. Slap a dressing-gown on her and give her a violin, and she could have walked straight into Baker Street and no questions asked. [...] She sniffed. And if I were to say that I liked the way she sniffed, I would be wilfully deceiving my public. It was the sort of sniff Sherlock Holmes would have sniffed when about to clap the darbies on the chap who had swiped the Maharajah's ruby. [...] “Yes, sir, if that was the language of love, I'll eat my hat,” said the blood relation, alluding, I took it, to the beastly straw contraption in which she does her gardening, concerning which I can only say that it is almost as foul as Uncle Tom's Sherlock Holmes deerstalker, which has frightened more crows than any other lid in Worcestershire. en figuratively by extension Any person who has or is considered to have great powers of observation and deduction. en 1937 1947 Ion Idriess Over The Range Angus and Robertson Sydney 191 And proof was soon evident that he needed to be a Sherlock Holmes. en Leslie Lonsdale-Cooper; Michael Turner w:Tintin in America w:The Adventures of Tintin Egmont 1978 2012 45 https://archive.org/details/tintininamerica0000herg/page/45/mode/1up 978 1 4052 0614 3 What powers of deduction! . . . And what assurance! . . . A real Sherlock Holmes! I really didn’t think detectives like that existed, except in books! Synonyms (person with great powers of deduction): Sherlock, Holmes Derived terms en Sherlock Holmesiana en Sherlock Holmesish en Sherlock Holmesque en Sherlock Holmesy Translations fictional detective Amharic: am ሼርሎክ ሆልምዝ m šerlok holməz Arabic: ar شرلوك هولمز m šerluk hulms Armenian: hy Շերլոք Հոլմս Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 歇洛克·福爾摩斯 Xiēluòkè Fú'ěrmósī, cmn 夏洛克·福爾摩斯 Xiàluòkè Fú'ěrmósī Danish: da Sherlock Holmes Esperanto: eo Ŝerloko Holmso Georgian: ka შერლოკ ჰოლმსი Greek: el Σέρλοκ Χολμς m Hebrew: he שרלוק הולמס m Indonesian: id Sherlock Holmes Japanese: ja シャーロック・ホームズ Shārokku Hōmuzu, ja 小室泰六 Komuro Tairoku early Japanese translations Korean: ko ^셜록 ^홈즈 Macedonian: mk Шерлок Холмс m Polish: pl Sherlock Holmes m Portuguese: pt Sherlock Holmes m Russian: ru Ше́рлок Холмс m person with great powers of deduction Danish: da Sherlock Holmes c Fijian: fj Selekomu Georgian: ka შერლოკ ჰოლმსი Indonesian: id Sherlock Holmes Italian: it Sherlock Holmes mfbysense (usually sarcastic) Polish: pl Sherlock Holmes m, pl Sherlock m Portuguese: pt Sherlock Holmes m Russian: ru Ше́рлок Холмс m See also Appendix:Sherlock Holmes concordance en eponyms en Fictional characters People Sherlock Holmes