| 单词 | french 'flu |
| 释义 | > as lemmasFrench 'flu French 'flu n. humorous excessive fondness for all things French (an expression first used by Arthur Koestler and used chiefly with allusion to him). ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social attitudes > patriotism > liking for or sympathy with other nations > [noun] > France > excessive Francomania1791 Gallomania1877 French 'flu1943 1943 A. Koestler Yogi & Commissar (1945) 21 The managerial class on Parnassus..have lately been affected by a new outbreak of that recurrent epidemic, the French 'Flu. 1966 J. Fowles Magus xv. 83 ‘Voila.’ ‘Very nice.’ I determined to stamp out the French 'flu before it spread. 2001 D. O'Keeffe in L. Desblache Aspects Specialised Transl. iii. 170 The ‘French 'flu’—the tendency for some modern writers in the English language to lay themselves open to any nonsense provided only that it was originally written in French. < as lemmas |
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