sacred cownoun [ C ]
uk/ˌseɪ.krɪd ˈkaʊ/us/ˌseɪ.krɪd ˈkaʊ/disapprovinga belief, custom, etc. that people support and do not question or criticize:
They did not dare to challenge the sacred cow of parliamentary democracy.
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Ideas, concepts and theories
- abstract
- afterthought
- brainchild
- concept
- conception
- construct
- dogma
- fancy
- inspiration
- intellectual property
- IP
- ism
- meat
- proposition
- propositional
- punctuated equilibrium
- straw man
- tenet
- the domino theory
- thrust
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