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

government cheese n. (a) cheese imported by the British government for sale in Britain to help relieve food shortages caused by the First World War (now rare); (b) U.S. colloquial cheese provided by the United States government processed from surplus stocks and distributed to people in receipt of certain welfare benefits; also in extended use, representing welfare benefits in general.

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1917 Scotsman 18 June 7/2 Special show-cards..so that the public will know that they are buying Government cheese and getting it at a moderate price.

1921 Manch. Guardian 5 Mar. 12/6 Government cheese has met with a good demand at 1s. 4d. per lb. to the retailer, to retail at 1s. 8d.

1934 Sheboygan (Wisconsin) Press 19 July 2/3 If we feel that to carry out our regulations we must require all federal surplus relief cheese to be marked with our grades,..the government cheese going out under these contracts would partly be marked state brand and partly standard.

1982 Washington Post 14 Apr. c3/1 President Reagan ordered that the nation's needy be given thousands of tons of surplus government cheese.

2003 Anthropol. Q. 76 716 Welfare-state-devotees fearing the loss of their dependent constituencies once they..shake their dependency on government cheese.

2010 ‘Jay-Z’ Decoded iii. 154 We grow up knowing people who pay for everything with little plastic cards—Medicare cards for checkups, EBT cards for food... We stand for hours waiting for bricks of government cheese.

单词	government cheese
释义	> as lemmas government cheese government cheese n. (a) cheese imported by the British government for sale in Britain to help relieve food shortages caused by the First World War (now rare); (b) U.S. colloquial cheese provided by the United States government processed from surplus stocks and distributed to people in receipt of certain welfare benefits; also in extended use, representing welfare benefits in general. ΚΠ 1917 Scotsman 18 June 7/2 Special show-cards..so that the public will know that they are buying Government cheese and getting it at a moderate price. 1921 Manch. Guardian 5 Mar. 12/6 Government cheese has met with a good demand at 1s. 4d. per lb. to the retailer, to retail at 1s. 8d. 1934 Sheboygan (Wisconsin) Press 19 July 2/3 If we feel that to carry out our regulations we must require all federal surplus relief cheese to be marked with our grades,..the government cheese going out under these contracts would partly be marked state brand and partly standard. 1982 Washington Post 14 Apr. c3/1 President Reagan ordered that the nation's needy be given thousands of tons of surplus government cheese. 2003 Anthropol. Q. 76 716 Welfare-state-devotees fearing the loss of their dependent constituencies once they..shake their dependency on government cheese. 2010 ‘Jay-Z’ Decoded iii. 154 We grow up knowing people who pay for everything with little plastic cards—Medicare cards for checkups, EBT cards for food... We stand for hours waiting for bricks of government cheese. extracted from governmentn. < as lemmas
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