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

rubber-chicken

adjective North American informal

Relating to a series of dinner and lunch appearances made by a politician or other public figures: candidates pleading for money on the rubber-chicken circuit...

And while it was easy to visualize him making uplifting speeches over rubber-chicken benefit dinners, it also was possible to imagine a retired governor coasting through with his feet on the desk.
Bill Clinton talked about Jesus more often than Mr Bush and has spoken in more churches than Mr Bush has had rubber-chicken dinners.
We didn't take any trains, but there were definitely planes and automobiles as we motored from a rubber-chicken lunch to a bad-news urban park in Washington, then jetted to a dinner back at the office in Atlanta, all in about three hours.

Origin

1950s: so called because of the mediocre food typically served at such functions.

单词	rubber-chicken
释义	rubber-chicken adjective North American informal Relating to a series of dinner and lunch appearances made by a politician or other public figures: candidates pleading for money on the rubber-chicken circuit... And while it was easy to visualize him making uplifting speeches over rubber-chicken benefit dinners, it also was possible to imagine a retired governor coasting through with his feet on the desk. Bill Clinton talked about Jesus more often than Mr Bush and has spoken in more churches than Mr Bush has had rubber-chicken dinners. We didn't take any trains, but there were definitely planes and automobiles as we motored from a rubber-chicken lunch to a bad-news urban park in Washington, then jetted to a dinner back at the office in Atlanta, all in about three hours. Origin 1950s: so called because of the mediocre food typically served at such functions.
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