| 单词 | colonel blimp |
| 释义 | > as lemmasColonel Blimp depreciative. extracted from blimpn.2 allusively. More fully Colonel Blimp. a. The type of person with old-fashioned or reactionary opinions and a pompous and peremptory manner, embodied in the character of Colonel Blimp (see etymology) and considered representative of a distinct or dominant group in British politics and society. Frequently attributive designating a person or class of people reminiscent of Colonel Blimp (cf. sense b). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > bias, prejudice > dislike of change, reaction > [noun] > person mumpsimus1530 inveteratist1715 reactionary1799 statu quo-ite1816 retrograde1825 redneck1830 stationary1831 stick-in-the-mud1832 reactionist1834 retrogradist1836 retrogressionist1848 mountainy man1851 misoneist1891 reactionarist1907 blimp1934 Neanderthal1966 hard hat1970 1934 Evening Standard 28 May 10 Prime Minister Blimp: ‘Gad, sir, the Air League is right. We must oppose all proposals for the abolition of military aviation.’ 1937 F. P. Crozier Men I Killed 13 Blimp still reigns, unfortunately, in places of greater responsibility where he can make a fool of himself more easily. 1941 ‘G. Orwell’ Lion & Unicorn 44 Thirty years ago the Blimp class was already losing its vitality. 1963 J. N. Harris Weird World Wes Beattie (1966) i. 14 He got this old Colonel Blimp magistrate pretty angry, so he threw the book at him. 1973 Times 26 Feb. (Arms for Peace Suppl.) p. iv/5 Colonel Blimp, bureaucracy and bull, the unholy trinity. 1997 New Yorker 25 Aug. 133/1 Charles..is sufficiently at ease in Camilla's company to send himself up as a buffoonish Colonel Blimp figure. b. An old-fashioned, pompous, or reactionary person, likened to Colonel Blimp; (originally) spec. an old army officer of this type. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > pomposity > [noun] > person puffball1763 pomposo1806 panjandrum1825 Lord Muck1858 stuffed shirt1913 blimp1935 1935 Manch. Guardian 25 Sept. 5/2 The authors are by no means Colonel Blimps: they even..dare to utter sacrilegious things about the holy ritual of cricket. 1937 F. P. Crozier Men I Killed vii. 137 Our new system of rearmament is at least serving the purpose of encouraging our Colonel Blimps to hide their heads..in the sand. 1957 J. Osborne Look Back in Anger ii. 68 Going to the dogs, as the Blimps are supposed to say. 1985 K. Williams Just Williams v. 110 An elderly blimp from a nearby table told us to be quiet. 2006 Independent 25 Oct. 37/2 In advertising..the elderly are either patronised as vigorous crinklies or jeered at as Colonel Blimps. 2012 N. Twitchell Politics of Rope vi. 106 Cyril Osborne (Louth) an inveterate opponent of abolition, easily characterized as a reactionary blimp. < as lemmas |
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