单词 | chicken run |
释义 | chicken runn. 1. An enclosure in which chickens may range freely. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal enclosure or house general > [noun] > enclosure > other enclosures post-and-rail paddock1684 straw yard1787 parkc1797 run1853 chicken run1868 creep1886 trap-yard1906 cutout1920 holding pen1923 holding paddock1933 holding yard1950 1868 Amer. Farmer May 337/2 Do not these facts and practice here referred to, clearly show that clean new ground for a chicken run, is a sure preventive of the gapes? 1906 Westm. Gaz. 13 Oct. 16/3 Should it..miss the lizard that crawls out into the open space of the chicken-run and pick up a young chicken instead—well, you can hardly blame it. 1942 E. Afr. Ann. 1941–2 81/1 A dense, flat-topped tree close to the chicken-run. 1991 T. Dennis Lo & Behold! (BNC) 71 A fox in a chicken run, faced with such an unnaturally generous supply of food, will release its instinct to kill until all the birds are dead. 2. colloquial (depreciative). Chiefly with the. a. The emigration of (large numbers of) people from an area of political upheaval and uncertainty; spec. (a) the emigration of white people from Rhodesia in the period surrounding the introduction of black majority rule and the subsequent granting of independence as Zimbabwe in 1980; (b) the emigration of white people from South Africa in the period surrounding the ending of the apartheid system in 1991. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > furnishing with inhabitants > migration > emigration > [noun] > an emigration or exodus Exodus1834 exode1882 chicken run1976 1976 Daily Mail 13 Dec. 6/2 ‘Where's old Charlie Penrith?’ I asked. ‘He's joined the chicken run,’ roared Toby, who was ticking along well on the cane spirit. ‘He's chickened out, along with the other chickens.’ 1977 Daily Disp. (East London, S. Afr.) 14 Dec. 12 ‘There's no point in staying and watching the rot set in when the blacks take over,’ a British-born engineer said..explaining why he is joining what has become known derisively as ‘The Chicken Run’. 1985 B. Ronge in Fair Lady (Cape Town) 27 Nov. 26 Today's times are not happy ones, and perhaps like mine, your mind is bent on escape. I don't intend going on the chicken run, of course. 1997 Re: An Amer. in Cape Town in soc.culture.african-american (Usenet newsgroup) 9 Sept. Why not make the best of your greener pastures and enjoy everyday of it without justifying your chicken run? 2014 @AntonHoch1 30 Apr. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) 26,000 Safricans that took the chicken run to Aussie. Do they really care about who governs SA? My guess, they'll just be anti ANC. b. South African. In extended use: the migration of people from South Africa to areas considered to have better socio-economic conditions, esp. Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom. ΚΠ 1996 Re: Gay in New York in soc.culture.south-africa (Usenet newsgroup) 24 Dec. Was joining the ‘chicken run’/‘Brain drain’ worth it? 2012 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 14 Jan. 27/1 Often the only way that you can become the great surgeon you always wanted to be is to do the ‘chicken run’ to the UK or Australia. 2016 @Mkhwemnte 12 July in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Ackerman has joined the chicken run. I hope he finds peace and tranquility in Perth. 3. British. The movement of MPs from marginal constituencies to stand as candidates for safer seats. Also in extended use: a rush to stand for one of a decreasing number of positions. First used with reference to Conservative MPs in the period leading up to the General Election of 1997. ΚΠ 1995 Sunday Times 30 July 2/7 Yesterday Labour accused Tory MPs seeking safer seats of going on a ‘chicken run’. 1999 Sunday Business (Nexis) 4 July There are now plenty of chicken-run candidates on the Labour benches: 55 of Blair's MPs have majorities of less than 5,000. 1999 Independent (Nexis) 13 Oct. 8 While sources..denied there was a ‘chicken run’, they confirmed that ‘a reasonable flood’ of hereditaries were seeking to register as candidates in the elections for those who will remain [in the House of Lords]. 2015 West Sussex Gaz. 14 Feb. Horsham will get, either, a candidate no one else wanted or a serving MP who is on the chicken run for a better seat. 2016 Birmingham Post (Nexis) 8 Dec. 25 The decision to cut the number of Birmingham councillors was always going to end up with an unseemly chicken run as would-be candidates rush to get selected for a diminishing number of winnable council seats. Derivatives ˈchicken runner n. colloquial (depreciative) a person who emigrates from an area of political upheaval and uncertainty (see sense 2). ΚΠ 1980 Summary of World Broadcasts Pt. 4: Middle East & Afr. (B.B.C.) 24 June ME/6453/B/3 Zimbabwe made many friends during the liberation struggle, and..these people will be very glad to come and replace every white chicken-runner who cannot accept change. 1986 G. McDougall in Style Nov. 8 Your chicken-runners remind me of people I once saw come down to a beautiful, spotless beach. They littered it..then moved off to sit on a fresh, clean space. 1994 Style Oct. 12 Hypocritical outpourings from chicken-runners who decide to spend a short time in South Africa. 2015 Times of Zambia (Nexis) 20 Sept. That chicken runner who cannot put up with repeated power disruptions. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1868 |
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