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单词 harley street
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Harley Streetn.

/ˈhɑːli/
Etymology: < the name of Harley Street in London, associated with eminent physicians and surgeons.
Used allusively for the specialists of the medical profession.
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the world > health and disease > healing > healer > specialist > [noun] > collectively
Harley Street1830
1830 New Monthly Mag. 29 220 Harley-street was..in an uproar at these monstrous stipulations.
1905 G. B. Shaw Shaw on Shakespeare (1962) 1 A regular company..holding itself as exclusively above the casual barnstormer as a Harley Street consultant holds himself above a man with a sarsaparilla stall.
1958 B. Nichols Sweet & Twenties xi. 138 The sort of people who always contribute to symposiums—a bishop, a general..an ‘eminent Harley Street surgeon’.
1961 L. Mumford City in Hist. iv. 105Harley Street’, ‘Madison Avenue’, ‘State Street’, are shorthand expressions not just for occupations, but for a whole way of life that they embody.
1972 M. Gilbert Body of Girl xvii. 156 Two Harley Street surgeons discussing a difficult case.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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