| 单词 | striped trousers |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstriped trousers f. striped trousers (typically worn by civil servants, businessmen, etc.), used allusively to indicate the wearer's status, and, by extension, bureaucracy, formality, etc.; by metonymy, a civil servant, etc.; so striped-trouser(ed) adj.; similarly (chiefly U.S.) striped pants. Cf. pinstripe n. and adj., pin-striped adj. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > [adjective] > bureaucratic functionary1668 bureaucratic1800 tape-tying1832 bureaucrat1849 red-tapish1850 red-tapey1860 tape-bound1900 tape-tied1900 striped-trouser(ed)1934 society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > a or the government > civil service > [adjective] striped-trouser(ed)1934 society > authority > office > [noun] > officialism or bureaucracy red tape1736 bureaucracy1815 bureauism1829 red-tapery1831 red-tapism1834 officiality1841 functionarism1842 officialism1849 red-tapedom1850 red tapeworm1851 tapism1852 green-ferret1853 officialty1853 paperasserie1856 paperchase1856 paper-chasing1876 departmentalism1886 Whitehallism1915 striped trousers1958 society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > a or the government > civil service > [noun] servicec1325 public service1576 Whitehall1716 civil service1816 striped trousers1958 1934 D. Thomas Let. Jan. (1987) 37 Oh to look..different from the striped trouser lads. 1945 ‘G. Orwell’ in New Saxon Pamphlets iii. 38 The striped-trousered ones will rule, but so long as they are forced to maintain an intelligentsia, the intelligentsia will have a certain amount of autonomy. 1946 A. Koestler Thieves in Night 220 At the end emerged the striped-trousered finished product. 1958 S. Hyland Who goes Hang? xxxiii. 140 He was almost in tears. Black tears with striped trousers. 1968 W. Safire New Lang. Politics 398/2 The diplomatic niceties of ‘striped-pants’ diplomacy. 1972 M. Gilbert Body of Girl xxiv. 206 A crook in striped trousers turns my stomach. 1974 ‘D. Kyle’ Raft of Swords x. 97 They may be useful. So may the striped-trousers in the Foreign Secretary's entourage. 1976 G. Markstein Man from Yesterday xi. 59 ‘Who's had to apologize?’ ‘The gentlemen in striped pants.’ 1977 Time 9 May 22/3 His youthful diplomatic appointee's aversion to striped-pants airs. 1977 ‘J. le Carré’ Honourable Schoolboy i. 24 Ring every damned striped-pants in the Colony! 1981 New Standard 1 Sept. 14/6 An old-fashioned striped-trouser diplomat. < as lemmas |
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