英语词汇“Selsdon man”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

Selsdon man

释义

Selsdon man Pol.|ˈsɛlzdən|
[The name of the Selsdon Park Hotel near Croydon, Surrey (see below) + man n.¹: after Piltdown man, etc.]
Used orig. and chiefly by political opponents to denote an imagined person or persons believed to be pursuing the policies outlined at a conference of Conservative Party leaders held at the Selsdon Park Hotel 30 Jan.–1 Feb. 1970.
1970H. Wilson in Labour Govt. (1971) xxxvii. 759 Selsdon Man is designing a system of society for the ruthless and the pushing.1971Butler & Pinto-Duschinsky Brit. General Election of 1970 vi. 131 To Mr. Wilson, these were demonstrations of atavistic Conservative instincts, which he summed up in a phrase he repeated time and again: ‘Selsdon man’.1974Times 31 Dec. 12/4 Selsdon man went wrong because it appeared to make the Conservative Party into a set of decimalized economic liberals.1979Internat. Jrnl. Sociol. of Law Feb. 102 ‘Selsdon Man’ climbed into office..by exploiting the traditional staple stuff of postwar British electoral politics—prices, unemployment and speculation about the ‘economy’.

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