| 释义 |
Grub Street  nounUsed in reference to a world or class of impoverished journalists and writers.He shows how Venice in the sixteenth century had its own Grub Street, like London in the seventeenth and Paris in the eighteenth century....- It shields her from the intellectual compromises monetary need imposes on the writer, from the necessity of fawning before editors or potential patrons, from becoming a harried Grub Street hack.
- Meanwhile, literary hacks and Grub Street writers produced popular pot boilers for the masses.
Origin The name of a street (later Milton Street) in Moorgate, London, inhabited by such authors in the 17th century. |