英语词汇“men in suits”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

men in suits n. somewhat derogatory (a collective term for) executive, managerial, or bureaucratic figures whose conventional formal dress is perceived as variously suggestive of conservative attitudes, a lack of individuality, or (esp. in political contexts) the anonymous exercise of power; also men in dark (also grey) suits; cf. suit n. 24c.

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1955 S. Wilson (title) The man in the gray flannel suit.]

1978 Economist 29 July 95 Publishers have hands it is a terrible thing to fall into—or so it seems to writers, ever in battle to drive a pristine vision past men in suits muttering about costs and paper and the libellous passage in Chapter XXII.

1978 New Scientist 21 Sept. 873/2 Men in dark suits and homburg hats will be commissioning think tanks to strategize.

1983 N.Y. Times iv. 3/1 Mr. Nakasone also has proved a contrast to his predecessors, most of whom were hard-to-remember men in gray suits and moods.

1990 K. J. Yeovil Krokodil Tears 135 Manolo had always known there were men in suits behind the Surf Nazis, but he'd never carried the vendetta to them.

1990 Sunday Tel. 25 Nov. 23 Margaret Thatcher was brought down by a brief, tacit alliance of ‘men in grey suits’ and Thatcher loyalists.

1992 Daily Mirror 8 Sept. 6/1 The men in dark suits put in charge of the changes don't like their new-look health service.

1994 Francophile Mag. Autumn 54/1 The magic kingdom [sc. Euro Disneyland] is struggling to satisfy the men in grey suits, the financiers who were only too happy to pour millions of pounds into the venture, but are now getting nervous.

单词	men in suits
释义	> as lemmas men in suits men in suits n. somewhat derogatory (a collective term for) executive, managerial, or bureaucratic figures whose conventional formal dress is perceived as variously suggestive of conservative attitudes, a lack of individuality, or (esp. in political contexts) the anonymous exercise of power; also men in dark (also grey) suits; cf. suit n. 24c. ΚΠ 1955 S. Wilson (title) The man in the gray flannel suit.] 1978 Economist 29 July 95 Publishers have hands it is a terrible thing to fall into—or so it seems to writers, ever in battle to drive a pristine vision past men in suits muttering about costs and paper and the libellous passage in Chapter XXII. 1978 New Scientist 21 Sept. 873/2 Men in dark suits and homburg hats will be commissioning think tanks to strategize. 1983 N.Y. Times iv. 3/1 Mr. Nakasone also has proved a contrast to his predecessors, most of whom were hard-to-remember men in gray suits and moods. 1990 K. J. Yeovil Krokodil Tears 135 Manolo had always known there were men in suits behind the Surf Nazis, but he'd never carried the vendetta to them. 1990 Sunday Tel. 25 Nov. 23 Margaret Thatcher was brought down by a brief, tacit alliance of ‘men in grey suits’ and Thatcher loyalists. 1992 Daily Mirror 8 Sept. 6/1 The men in dark suits put in charge of the changes don't like their new-look health service. 1994 Francophile Mag. Autumn 54/1 The magic kingdom [sc. Euro Disneyland] is struggling to satisfy the men in grey suits, the financiers who were only too happy to pour millions of pounds into the venture, but are now getting nervous. extracted from mann.¹int. < as lemmas
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