单词	cause célèbre
释义	cause célèbre /ˌkɔːz sɛˈlɛbr(ə) / /koz selɛbʀ/ noun (plural causes célèbres pronounced same) A controversial issue that attracts a great deal of public attention: suddenly, saving the station’s architectural integrity became a cause célèbre... It became a cause célèbre, a controversy and it involved tick-tack of a very competitive nature between the judicial and legislative arms of government in that country. In both these cases, the principal weapon it used was the judicial cause célèbre that dramatically highlighted an individual case of persecution and injustice before the ‘tribunal of public opinion’. Eventually the dispute became such a cause célèbre that a delegation of strikers headed by their leading shop steward, Rose Boland, was invited to tea in Whitehall with the then employment secretary, Barbara Castle. Origin Mid 18th century: French, literally 'famous case'.
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