单词 | old leftist |
释义 | Old Leftistn. Politics. A member or supporter of the Old Left. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > groups or attitudes right to left > [noun] > the left > old left or liberal > adherent of liberalist1804 Old Leftist1953 pinko-liberal1957 1953 J. Buttinger Hist. Revolutionary Socialists Austria viii. 417 The trouble is not that the last few years made a reformist of him, but that he simply remained the old leftist. 1967 Time 21 Apr. 15 New York police on horseback—in contrast with the ‘Cossack’ image so many Old Leftists apply to them—kept the countermarchers from breaking up the parade. 1995 Scotsman (Electronic ed.) 17 May The old-leftist Paul Foot..compares Gordon Brown to the former Labour chancellor Philip Snowden. 2002 Evening Standard (Nexis) 2 Sept. 11 He even says, with a slight note of condescension, that he can forgive me for being an Old Leftist. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1953 |
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