| 单词 | sitting next to nelly |
| 释义 | > as lemmassitting next to (also by, with) Nelly 4. slang. sitting next to (also by, with) Nelly: learning an occupation on the job by observing how others do it. ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > [noun] > types of learning opsimathya1656 latent learning1929 hypnopaedia1932 naming of (the) parts1946 sleep-learning1953 sitting next to (also by, with) Nelly1963 hidden curriculum1964 1963 J. M. Fraser Psychol. (ed. 2) xiv. 173 Observation of a skilled operator (often characterized as ‘sitting next to Nellie’). 1966 Guardian 30 July 6/5 The generous ‘General Trainees Scheme’ which allows them to spend up to two years in different departments [of the BBC]—‘sitting with Nellie’, is the union phrase. 1972 Listener 10 Aug. 180/2 Journalists are the casual labourers of the intellectual world... Most training still consists of sitting next to Nellie. 1975 New Society 17 July 130/1 It was then made compulsory for doctors from overseas to ‘sit by Nellie’ for a month. Immigrant doctors had to complete satisfactorily a month's supervision under a consultant supervisor. 1988 D. Vernon Tiller's Girls (BNC) 25 Elsie Parker had ‘lived in’ during her training [as a dancer]... She maintained that you simply stood and watched the other Girls; this was called ‘sitting at the side of Nellie’. 1991 B. Gibbs et al. Reality of Partnership (BNC) Some obvious benefits are almost bound to derive from bringing two organisations together, just as sitting next to Nellie traditionally gradually fused the experience of the expert with the youthful vigour of the apprentice. < as lemmas |
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