单词 | pig in the python |
释义 | > as lemmaspig in the python pig in the python n. (and variants) figurative (originally and chiefly U.S.). those people born (esp. in the United States) during the ‘baby boom’ of the years immediately following the Second World War (1939–45), considered as a demographic bulge; (hence) any short-term increase or notably large group, viewed statistically. ΚΠ 1971 N.Y. Times 6 Nov. 17/1 On a graph of the entire population by age, this group [sc. the baby boomers] sticks out like the python's dinner.] 1974 N.Y. Times 21 Apr. iv. 6/3 (headline) Pigs in a python... All very well for the bulge group you may say. 1988 Newsday (Nexis) 28 Feb. 11 In demographic terms, the college-educated baby boomers constitute a huge ‘pig in a python’—their bulk can be seen moving slowly, slowly through history. 1997 Automotive News (Nexis) 22 Sept. 11 The leasing boom of the early 1990s was expected to be a ‘pig in the python’. 2003 Lewiston (Idaho) Morning Tribune (Nexis) 6 Dec. 12 a The pig-in-the-python of music sales: young people earning minimum wage or not much more. < as lemmas |
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