单词 | little american |
释义 | > as lemmasLittle American Little American n. now chiefly historical an opponent of an international role or policy for the United States. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > American politics > [noun] > principles or policies > adherents or supporters of well-born1629 liberty boy1766 federalist1787 anti1788 Fed1788 monocrat1792 anti-federal1805 blue light1814 dough face1820 colonizationist1823 slavite1831 hunker1849 states' righter1861 slavist1889 Little American1899 New Frontiersman1923 America Firster1927 new federalist1969 angry white male1991 angry white man1993 AWM1994 1899 D. Caffery in Congress. Rec. 6 Jan. 432/2 When Washington besought his countrymen to avoid all foreign complications and entanglements was he a little American? 1919 W. E. Borah in Congress. Rec. 19 Nov. 8783/1 Those of us who have stood against this proposition have been taunted many times with being little Americans. 1975 R. H. Ferrell in H. H. Quint & M. Cantor Men, Women, & Issues in Amer. Hist. II. ix. 178 If the people of the United States listened to the anti-imperialists, the Little Americans of the day, and the nation withdrew from the islands, what would history say? 2008 B. Kauffman Ain't my Amer. i. 32 The dire warnings of Little Americans that expansion, conquest, and what was soon to be called manifest destiny will be the ruin of us yet. < as lemmas |
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