| 单词 | yesterday's man |
| 释义 | > as lemmasyesterday's man yesterday's man n. a man, esp. a politician, whose career is finished or past its peak. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > [noun] > one who or that which is unsuccessful > one who is a failure > one who is past his peak has-been1702 have-been1737 had-beenc1748 used-to-be1852 extinct volcano1865 wasser1924 yesterday's man1966 1966 ‘G. Black’ You want to die, Johnny? ii. 27 John saw himself as one of yesterday's men, a survivor. 1970 Times 12 May 1/5 It [sc. the campaign] presents Mr. Heath and some of his better known lieutenants..as ‘yesterday's men—they failed before’. 1994 Washington Post 5 July a12/6 As Poland's revolution has moved from the stark struggle between communism and freedom to the nuanced..contest for the shape of the future, Walesa finds himself something of a yesterday's man. 2007 J. McGuigan in J. Ahearne & O. Bennett Intellectuals & Cultural Policy 85 He is now a yesterday's man, a figure, most memorably, of the Swinging Sixties. < as lemmas |
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