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Harvey Smith, n. U.K. slang.|ˌhɑːvɪ ˈsmɪθ|
[The name of Robert Harvey Smith (b. 1938), English show-jumper, who was alleged to have made this gesture during a televised event in 1971: see quot. 1972.]
A V-sign (sense 2 b); a gesture of defiance or contempt. Also to do a Harvey Smith, to make a gesture of this kind.
[1972H. Smith V is for Victory i. 14 Hickstead 1971. The British Jumping Derby was held on August 15th... I raised two fingers on my right hand... It was a V for Victory... If it was also interpreted as an ‘up you’ to those..who had made it plain that they wanted Mattie Brown to lose; then all well and good.] 1973A. Smith Radford's To coin Phrase 109/2 The show jumper Harvey Smith..was alleged to have raised two fingers at..one of the judges..but was later exonerated. As a result the phrase ‘..so I gave him the old Harvey Smith’ gained some currency. 1978Daily Tel. 4 Apr. 16/5 Some of her activities have been the cause of public opprobrium... Her latest escapade can be interpreted as ‘doing a Harvey Smith’ at everybody. 1981Oxford Star 6–7 Aug. 2/3 Feeble attempts by the authorities to curb this action have been met with a very strong ‘Harvey Smith’. 1988Bicycle Midsummer 32/3 A grizzled old chap who had witnessed the crone's rudeness, yelled something in Portuguese, too fast for me to follow, and gave her the local equivalent of a Harvey Smith. |