单词 | maginot-minded |
释义 | > as lemmasMaginot-minded 2. In extended use (in other ad hoc compounds), indicating a preoccupation with defence (of the status quo, etc.), or with a particular means of defence, as Maginot attitude, Maginot-complex; Maginot-minded adj. ΚΠ 1940 Economist 13 July 37/1 The efficacy of blockade is a mirage, a delusion comparable to the Maginot-complex that bemused and enervated France. 1940 ‘Cato’ Guilty Men xxiv. 123 The maginot-minded French, wedded to the idea of ‘defensive ferro concrete’. 1942 Ann. Reg. 1941 79 People began to wonder whether the Government had not become ‘Maginot-minded’. 1962 Listener 24 May 893/1 Defence is only relevant to my present argument as evidence of the Maginot attitude of the old and Great Powers. < as lemmas |
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