单词 | harley street |
释义 | Harley Streetn. Used allusively for the specialists of the medical profession. ΘΚΠ 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. 105 ‘Harley 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). < n.1830 |
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