| 单词 | irishman's promotion |
| 释义 | > as lemmasIrishman's promotion Irishman's promotion n. colloquial (now somewhat rare) a demotion; = Irish promotion n. at Irish adj. and n. Compounds 3. ΚΠ 1883 Atchison (Kansas) Globe 3 Nov. Mr. Anderson gets an Irishman's promotion. 1902 C. J. C. Hyne Mr. Horrocks, Purser ii. 27 I've a sort of memory that you got Irishman's promotion for a bit of a mistake just recently. 1990 C. D. Storrar Four Faces of Fourcade iii. 21 Fourcade was given an Irishman's promotion when his designation was changed to ‘Officer-in-charge of the George and Western Knysna Forests’. < as lemmas |
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