英语词汇“wet fish”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

b. Inept, ineffectual, effete; also as quasi-adv. and in combination wet fish, a wet individual, a ‘drip’. Also spec. in Politics (see quots. 1981, 1983). Cf. wet n.¹ 6.

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society > authority > rule or government > politics > British politics > British party politics > [adjective] > conservative > of Tories or conservatives > types of

tantivy1681

high Tory1682

roary1682

Tory-Radical1823

true blue1827

Tory Democratic1836

Eldonine1855

Eldonian1898

wet1981

1916 ‘Taffrail’ Pincher Martin ii. 27 I'll give yer a clip 'longside the ear'ole if you ain't careful. Don't act so wet.

1924 P. Marks Plastic Age 94 They attended a performance of Shaw's ‘Candida’ given by the Dramatic Society and voted it a ‘wet’ show.

1924 P. Marks Plastic Age 192 A man is wet if he isn't a ‘regular guy’; he is wet if he isn't ‘smooth’; he is wet if he has intellectual interests..; and he is wet..if he is utterly stupid.

1938 E. Bowen Death of Heart ii. iv. 239 Cecil is so wet! Coming early like that, then sticking round like that.

1944 A. Christie Towards Zero 86 Audrey marry that wet fish? She's a lot too good for that.

1963 Amer. Speech 38 173 An unattractive female date... Ugliness..ranges from such general terms as beast..to the more specific bear, cow, goose, moose, roach.., squirrel, and wet fish.

1969 K. Amis Green Man iv. 180 The Jesus of the Gospels can be a bit of a wet liberal at times.

1973 P. O'Donnell Silver Mistress iv. 74 Don't talk wet, Jan. There's nothing you could do.

1980 Times Lit. Suppl. 28 Nov. 1355/2 The contrast between the splendid façade and the rather wet interior of the man [sc. Havelock Ellis], who was kind and gentle and distinguished, but also distressingly absent, indifferent and faint.

1981 Observer 26 July 12/3 The term ‘Wet’ was originally used by Mrs Thatcher, who meant it in the old sense of ‘soppy’, as in ‘What do you mean the unions won't like it, Jim? Don't be so wet.’ It meant feeble, liable to take the easy option, lacking intellectual and political hardness. Like so many insults, it was gleefully adopted by its victims, and so came by its present meaning of liberal, leftish, anti-ideological.1982 Listener 23 Dec. 6/3 In considering the promotion of wet (or wettish) Ministers, she will tell herself that Pope was right.1983 Age (Melbourne) 5 Oct. 13 Britain's Tory Prime Minister, Mrs Margaret Thatcher, began this vogue terminology by contemptously dismissing dewy-eyed dissenters from her arid Right-wing policies as ‘wet’.

单词	wet fish
释义	> as lemmas wet fish b. Inept, ineffectual, effete; also as quasi-adv. and in combination wet fish, a wet individual, a ‘drip’. Also spec. in Politics (see quots. 1981, 1983). Cf. wet n.¹ 6. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > British politics > British party politics > [adjective] > conservative > of Tories or conservatives > types of tantivy1681 high Tory1682 roary1682 Tory-Radical1823 true blue1827 Tory Democratic1836 Eldonine1855 Eldonian1898 wet1981 1916 ‘Taffrail’ Pincher Martin ii. 27 I'll give yer a clip 'longside the ear'ole if you ain't careful. Don't act so wet. 1924 P. Marks Plastic Age 94 They attended a performance of Shaw's ‘Candida’ given by the Dramatic Society and voted it a ‘wet’ show. 1924 P. Marks Plastic Age 192 A man is wet if he isn't a ‘regular guy’; he is wet if he isn't ‘smooth’; he is wet if he has intellectual interests..; and he is wet..if he is utterly stupid. 1938 E. Bowen Death of Heart ii. iv. 239 Cecil is so wet! Coming early like that, then sticking round like that. 1944 A. Christie Towards Zero 86 Audrey marry that wet fish? She's a lot too good for that. 1963 Amer. Speech 38 173 An unattractive female date... Ugliness..ranges from such general terms as beast..to the more specific bear, cow, goose, moose, roach.., squirrel, and wet fish. 1969 K. Amis Green Man iv. 180 The Jesus of the Gospels can be a bit of a wet liberal at times. 1973 P. O'Donnell Silver Mistress iv. 74 Don't talk wet, Jan. There's nothing you could do. 1980 Times Lit. Suppl. 28 Nov. 1355/2 The contrast between the splendid façade and the rather wet interior of the man [sc. Havelock Ellis], who was kind and gentle and distinguished, but also distressingly absent, indifferent and faint. 1981 Observer 26 July 12/3 The term ‘Wet’ was originally used by Mrs Thatcher, who meant it in the old sense of ‘soppy’, as in ‘What do you mean the unions won't like it, Jim? Don't be so wet.’ It meant feeble, liable to take the easy option, lacking intellectual and political hardness. Like so many insults, it was gleefully adopted by its victims, and so came by its present meaning of liberal, leftish, anti-ideological.1982 Listener 23 Dec. 6/3 In considering the promotion of wet (or wettish) Ministers, she will tell herself that Pope was right.1983 Age (Melbourne) 5 Oct. 13 Britain's Tory Prime Minister, Mrs Margaret Thatcher, began this vogue terminology by contemptously dismissing dewy-eyed dissenters from her arid Right-wing policies as ‘wet’. extracted from wetadj. < as lemmas
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