单词 | juggernaut car |
释义 | > as lemmasJuggernaut car 2. figurative. An institution, practice, or notion to which persons blindly devote themselves, or are ruthlessly sacrificed. Also Juggernaut car in same sense. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > harshness or severity > [noun] > rigid or relentless > thing or person Juggernaut1854 1854 J. W. Warter Last of Old Squires iv. 32 A neighbouring people were crushed beneath the worse than Jaggernaut car of wild and fierce democracy. 1865 H. W. Longfellow in S. Longfellow Life H. W. Longfellow (1891) III. 66 The locomotive is the American Juggernaut. 1865 ‘Ouida’ Strathmore I. vi. 89 Society falls down before the Juggernaut of a Triumph. 1873 J. Forster Life Dickens II. xix. 415 Poor Johnny Tetterby staggering under his Moloch of an infant, the Juggernaut that crushes all his enjoyments. 1878 T. A. Edison in N. Amer. Rev. 126 536 Details..will wholly disappear before that remorseless Juggernaut—‘the needs of man’. 1883 Standard 3 Sept. 4/6 Practical politics, that Revolutionary Juggernaut that grinds us all under its car. < as lemmas |
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