| 单词 | grey eminence |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgrey eminence grey eminence n. a person who exercises power or influence in a certain sphere without holding an official position; = éminence grise n. ΘΚΠ society > authority > power > influence > [noun] > one who or that which influences > influential person > behind the scenes power behind the throne1783 wire-puller1824 grey eminence1831 wire-worker1835 éminence grise1838 string-puller1961 1831 E. E. Crowe Hist. France (U.S. ed.) II. ii. 46 Although the latter [sc. Richelieu] never procured for his monkish friend the cardinal's hat which he demanded, still the people called father Joseph his ‘gray eminence’, at once to distinguish him from and assimilate him to his ‘red eminence’ the cardinal. 1945 R. Hargreaves Enemy at Gate 151 Bismarck's ‘grey eminence’, the enigmatic Holstein. 1956 F. Swinnerton Background with Chorus 78 The parts played by men not visibly figuring in ‘movements’—the grey eminences whose unpublished efforts give new ideas currency and new authors, or old authors, great places in literature. 1965 Listener 21 Oct. 614/1 That grey eminence of British communism Mr Palme Dutt. 1994 J. Barth Once upon Time 256 I had the remarkable privilege of an extended though eclectic grand tour..of the gray eminences of the professoriat. < as lemmas |
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