英语词汇“grey flannel suit”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

grey flannel suit n. colloquial (originally U.S.) a conventional grey suit regarded as suggestive of the wearer's conservative, bureaucratic, or conformist attitude or his or her lack of individuality, frequently with reference to the perceived atmosphere of conformity in the United States, esp. in the business world, in the 1950s and early 1960s; cf. grey suit n.In man in grey flannel suit frequently with allusion to the title of the work cited in quot. 1955.

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1955 S. Wilson (title) The man in the gray flannel suit.

1956 Science 16 Mar. 476/3 (advt.) Medical Writer. ‘Gray Flannel Suit’ type, 25-35 years old with imagination, science background, and talent for concise, effective prose.

1958 S. Plath Jrnl. 15 Apr. (2000) 370 Read only the great poets: let their voices live in my ear & not the dregs & academic twiddle & pish of the young modern grey-flannel suit poets.

1973 C. Jencks Mod. Movements in Archit. viii. 302 He was characterized as a technician rather than a workman.., a member of a committee rather than an entrepreneur, and a man in a ‘Grey Flannel Suit’.

1995 Amer. Hist. Rev. 100 968/2 Under Kennedy, a sense of possibilities and of freedom were transferred to the re-experiencing of the body (dance, happening, sexuality), as if youth had finally rid themselves of the dull man with the grey flannel suit.

2000 N.Y. Times Mag. 7 May 53/1 America..to the social critics of the 1950's..was a community of conformists... The organization men wore gray flannel suits. The women were stunted by the feminine mystique.

单词	grey flannel suit
释义	> as lemmas grey flannel suit grey flannel suit n. colloquial (originally U.S.) a conventional grey suit regarded as suggestive of the wearer's conservative, bureaucratic, or conformist attitude or his or her lack of individuality, frequently with reference to the perceived atmosphere of conformity in the United States, esp. in the business world, in the 1950s and early 1960s; cf. grey suit n.In man in grey flannel suit frequently with allusion to the title of the work cited in quot. 1955. ΚΠ 1955 S. Wilson (title) The man in the gray flannel suit. 1956 Science 16 Mar. 476/3 (advt.) Medical Writer. ‘Gray Flannel Suit’ type, 25-35 years old with imagination, science background, and talent for concise, effective prose. 1958 S. Plath Jrnl. 15 Apr. (2000) 370 Read only the great poets: let their voices live in my ear & not the dregs & academic twiddle & pish of the young modern grey-flannel suit poets. 1973 C. Jencks Mod. Movements in Archit. viii. 302 He was characterized as a technician rather than a workman.., a member of a committee rather than an entrepreneur, and a man in a ‘Grey Flannel Suit’. 1995 Amer. Hist. Rev. 100 968/2 Under Kennedy, a sense of possibilities and of freedom were transferred to the re-experiencing of the body (dance, happening, sexuality), as if youth had finally rid themselves of the dull man with the grey flannel suit. 2000 N.Y. Times Mag. 7 May 53/1 America..to the social critics of the 1950's..was a community of conformists... The organization men wore gray flannel suits. The women were stunted by the feminine mystique. extracted from greygrayadj.n. < as lemmas
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