| 单词 | bully boy tactics |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbully boy tactics As a modifier (in sense 2), with the sense ‘characteristic or reminiscent of a bully boy; that is a bully boy; bullying’, esp. in bully boy tactics. ΚΠ 1940 Kingsport (Tennessee) Times 25 Mar. 6/1 The American press was unsparing in its criticism of the French and British governments for knuckling under to the bully-boy tactics of the German leader. 1969 Harper's Mag. Oct. 101/2 White male counterreaction: bullyboy spoiling for a fight to preserve masculinity that has just been thumbnosed by a new skinny kid on the block. 1981 R. D. Edwards Corridors of Death (1991) xxvii. 117 Knowing him, he'll have started with bully-boy tactics, and found it difficult to climb down later. 1991 Art in Amer. Apr. 43/3 Underneath Pollock's bully-boy behavior ‘was a shy, sensitive boy, yearning to be liked’. 2011 Independent 28 Apr. (Viewspaper section) 7/2 Bully-boy head prefects and their sniggering acolytes telling us to pull our socks up, stop being greedy and go for a run did little to help then, and will make little difference now. 2020 Basingstoke Gaz. (Nexis) 27 July A councillor who is set to make a decision over the future of Hampshire's libraries has been accused of using ‘bully boy tactics’ by campaigners. < as lemmas |
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