| 单词 | mutual admiration society |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmutual admiration society mutual admiration society n. a coterie of people who flatter one another and promote each other's reputations. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > self-esteem > vanity > [noun] > vain person > coterie mutual admiration society1845 mutual admiration gang1920 1845 Knickerbocker Dec. 579 What a pudder our last number has created among two or three inferior members of the small ‘Mutual Admiration Society’, who [etc.]. 1880 L. Stephen Alexander Pope 50 That body was not more free than other mutual admiration societies from the desire to impose its own prejudices on the public. 1969 G. Battiscombe Queen Alexandra x. 139 Seldom can there have been a more devoted family: the unkind might even have called them a mutual admiration society. 1987 Newsweek 18 May 51/1 The three formed a cozy mutual-admiration society. < as lemmas |
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