| 单词 | the tired businessman |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe tired businessman d. the tired businessman: a cliché, often used with satirical allusion to the short working hours and pleasure-loving habits popularly ascribed to businessmen.The phrase is said to have been used by Mark Twain in 1896. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > [noun] > one engaged in amusement or entertainment player1340 dalliera1568 pastimer1608 recreationist1819 pleasure-seeker1825 pleasurer1833 the tired businessman1913 looner1969 1913 Dress & Vanity Fair Nov. 37/2 ‘I mean simply this, my dear,’ replied the Tired Business Man. 1927 A. Huxley Proper Stud. 186 From the fetish-worshipper to the metaphysician, from the tired business man to the mystic..every type of human being can find in Catholicism the spiritual nourishment which he or she requires. 1940 I. Brown in Best One-act Plays 1939 141 Oh, how I've longed to be a Tired Business Man once more—office at ten, out at twelve-thirty, back at three, sign the letters, off home! 1969 Listener 20 Mar. 399/1 We often use the cliché of the tired businessman to define the low response..that sustains leg-shows. < as lemmas |
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