单词 | career suicide |
释义 | > as lemmascareer suicide 2. figurative. A course of action which is disastrously damaging to oneself or one's interests. Frequently with modifying word, as in career suicide, political suicide, social suicide. ΚΠ 1660 T. Salusbury in tr. D. Bartoli Learned Man defended & Reform'd To Rdr. sig. A8v Thus Retaliating upon them, their Learned Suicide of Learning, with this Jesuitical Refutation of English Jesuitism. 1793 V. Knox Personal Nobility liv. 337 There should be no war, much less intestine war, which may be justly called political suicide. 1817 I. D'Israeli Curiosities of Lit. 1st Ser. III. 189 Men of genius..voluntarily committing a literary suicide in their own manuscripts. 1886 J. Ruskin Præterita I. xi. 389 The central tragedy of all the world, the suicide of Greece. 1972 Financial Times 13 Jan. 10 Middle managers generally have a poorly developed instinct for committing career suicide. 1982 D. Pendleton Mack Bolan: Return to Vietnam vi. 55 You cannot enter the prison alone, Colonel Phoenix. That would be suicide. 2003 T. Fey Mean Girls (film script, revised) (O.E.D. Archive) 23 Cady... I'm joining the Mathletes. Regina. No, no, no. You cannot do that. That is social suicide. < as lemmas |
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