单词 | backroom boy |
释义 | > as lemmasbackroom boy b. spec. A room where (esp. secret) research is carried out. Also in extended uses. Applied attributively to one who works or wields influence ‘behind the scenes’. So backroom boy (colloquial), a person engaged in (secret) research. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > privacy > [adjective] > out of public view behind-scene1841 behind the scenes1841 offstage1904 back room1941 backstage1950 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > privacy > [noun] > less prominent position > place for research back room1941 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > privacy > [noun] > less prominent position > place for research > worker in backroom boy1941 1941 Ld. Beaverbrook in Listener 27 Mar. 443/1 Now who is responsible for this work of development on which so much depends? To whom must the praise be given? To the boys in the back rooms. They do not sit in the limelight. But they are the men who do the work. Many of them are Civil Servants. 1943 N. Balchin (title) The Small Back Room. 1943 Punch 11 Nov. 422 (caption) He's one of those obscure back-room boys who have lately been so much in the limelight. 1944 Times 9 Aug. 2/3 The man most responsible for the development of the rocket projectile..is Group Captain John D'Arcy Bakercarr,..whose ‘backroom boys’ at the Ministry of Aircraft Production have worked unremittingly with him. 1945 News Chron. 17 May 1/1 Considerable numbers of backroom Nazis, such as bankers and industrialists, have been arrested. 1951 D. N. Chester Lessons Brit. War Econ. ii. 15 No group of back-room boys writing memoranda embodying ideal policies is likely to have much influence. 1958 Times Lit. Suppl. 20 June 337/3 It occurred to boys working in back rooms that if only neutrons could be released in the process a chain-reaction might be set up. 1959 Oxf. Univ. Gaz. 1 May 995/1 The staff..could not take on additional services to readers without increasing the arrears of essential cataloguing and other back-room work. < as lemmas |
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