英语词汇“rent-a-crowd”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

b. In various extended and humorous (typically derogatory) uses, suggesting the temporary acquisition or instant availability of the person or thing specified, usually for an expedient or mercenary purpose; spec. (chiefly British) denoting a faction of regular, esp. violent, participants in public protests, in rent-a-crowd, rent-a-mob, etc. See also rent-a-cop n., rent-a-quote adj. and n.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > acquisition > acquisition or loss [phrase] > easily obtainable

up for grabs1945

rent-a-crowd1961

1961 Daily Tel. 21 Dec. 8/6 Dictators!!! When you liberate a territory or mop up a colonialist enclave, are you disappointed and upset to receive only a tepid welcome from the people? Let rentacrowd help you! We can supply cheering crowds for all occasions.

1964 C. Driver Disarmers x. 233 The phenomenon which Peter Simple of the Daily Telegraph cruelly christened ‘Rentacrowd’: London's instantly available progressive claque ready..to demonstrate on a whole range of causes.

1970 Guardian 27 Oct. 11/5 The strategy was based upon a tactic which Oxford students called Rentamob..a hard core of rioters who could turn a demonstration into a confrontation.

1976 Times 27 Jan. 4/1 Squatters in London are reported to be using children in a ‘rent-a-kid’ system, as a means of being rehoused.

1977 New Society 7 July 15/1 Trouble was caused not by ordinary workers, still less by management, but by Rent-a-picket... ‘There's always the Rent-a-crowd element that hangs on to strikes.’

1980 Wall St. Jrnl. 6 Aug. 1 (heading) Rent-a-judge... California is allowing its wealthy litigants to hire private jurists.

1989 Q Dec. 111/2 Cray is one of the rent-a-celebs that show up here to prod E.C. [sc. Eric Clapton] into some of his most committed performances of the '80s.

1997 Big Issue 9 June 18/1 He's maturing into the British version of Christopher Walken: a convincing rent-a-psycho.

2002 Prospect Dec. 14/2 Soviet style mass rallies with rent-a-crowd supporters bussed in from the provinces.

2006 Time Out N.Y. 14 Sept. 122/4 He personally staged a ‘rent-a-coup’ that landed himself and dozens of would-be accomplices in a Zimbabwean prison.

单词	rent-a-crowd
释义	> as lemmas rent-a-crowd b. In various extended and humorous (typically derogatory) uses, suggesting the temporary acquisition or instant availability of the person or thing specified, usually for an expedient or mercenary purpose; spec. (chiefly British) denoting a faction of regular, esp. violent, participants in public protests, in rent-a-crowd, rent-a-mob, etc. See also rent-a-cop n., rent-a-quote adj. and n. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > acquisition > acquisition or loss [phrase] > easily obtainable up for grabs1945 rent-a-crowd1961 1961 Daily Tel. 21 Dec. 8/6 Dictators!!! When you liberate a territory or mop up a colonialist enclave, are you disappointed and upset to receive only a tepid welcome from the people? Let rentacrowd help you! We can supply cheering crowds for all occasions. 1964 C. Driver Disarmers x. 233 The phenomenon which Peter Simple of the Daily Telegraph cruelly christened ‘Rentacrowd’: London's instantly available progressive claque ready..to demonstrate on a whole range of causes. 1970 Guardian 27 Oct. 11/5 The strategy was based upon a tactic which Oxford students called Rentamob..a hard core of rioters who could turn a demonstration into a confrontation. 1976 Times 27 Jan. 4/1 Squatters in London are reported to be using children in a ‘rent-a-kid’ system, as a means of being rehoused. 1977 New Society 7 July 15/1 Trouble was caused not by ordinary workers, still less by management, but by Rent-a-picket... ‘There's always the Rent-a-crowd element that hangs on to strikes.’ 1980 Wall St. Jrnl. 6 Aug. 1 (heading) Rent-a-judge... California is allowing its wealthy litigants to hire private jurists. 1989 Q Dec. 111/2 Cray is one of the rent-a-celebs that show up here to prod E.C. [sc. Eric Clapton] into some of his most committed performances of the '80s. 1997 Big Issue 9 June 18/1 He's maturing into the British version of Christopher Walken: a convincing rent-a-psycho. 2002 Prospect Dec. 14/2 Soviet style mass rallies with rent-a-crowd supporters bussed in from the provinces. 2006 Time Out N.Y. 14 Sept. 122/4 He personally staged a ‘rent-a-coup’ that landed himself and dozens of would-be accomplices in a Zimbabwean prison. extracted from rentv.² < as lemmas
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