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‖ vice anglais|vis ɑ̃glɛ|
[Fr., lit. ‘English vice’ (vice n.1).]
The vice to which the English are said to be particularly prone (esp. with reference to corporal punishment).
1942[see self-medication]. 1947Horizon Nov. 269 No novelist in the last decade of the century could create a character who practised le vice anglais without attributing to him some of Swinburne's physical characteristics. 1950E. H. W. Meyerstein Let. 6 Jan. (1959) 369 You must remember that it is much more important socially for a boy to play for his public school in cricket..than to win a prize... It is a very queer trait and a modern psychologist might quite possibly link it up with sadism (‘le vice Anglais’), success consisting in hitting something, though that ‘something’ be no more than a ball. 1962Times 21 July 4/5 Whack-O!—a programme whose long life testifies, if nothing else, to the continued popularity of le vice anglais. 1976F. Muir Frank Muir Book 73 Flogging in public schools..has been given as the reason for so many..English gentlemen enjoying a little corporal punishment later in life, ‘le vice Anglais’. 1983Daily Tel. 5 Aug. 12/1 The true vice anglais is the hatred felt by a sub-section of the middle class for their own country and their desire to humiliate her. |