单词 | me-tooer |
释义 | me-tooern. colloquial (frequently depreciative). Originally U.S. A person who acquiesces in, adopts, or imitates a view or policy (esp. a successful or popular one) proposed or championed by another (usually rival) person or party; (more widely) a person who rushes to follow a trend. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > acquiescence > [noun] > in views or policies of another > one who me-tooer1924 1924 Nevada Educ. Bull. Sept. 14 Help make my teachers' associations—local, state, national—live wires by not being a ‘me tooer’. 1947 Union Bulletin (Walla Walla, Washington) 8 Aug. 4/4 Dewey..is wary of being typed too early as a ‘conservative’, ‘internationalist’, or ‘New Deal me-tooer’ on the basis of a couple of radio addresses. 1959 Guardian 28 Dec. 6/1 Wendell Willkie, Governor Dewey, and General Eisenhower were all..‘me-tooers’—men whose chief appeal was to the vague, uncontroversial idealism of the non-partisan. 1965 Economist 14 Aug. 607/2 The unions have few independent ideas to contribute to this design for a better America; they were ‘me tooers’ in Roosevelt's New Deal, Truman's Fair Deal and Kennedy's New Frontier. 1994 Chicago Tribune 21 July iii. 2/2 Watch the me-tooers jump on the bandwagon if Procter is successful. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1924 |
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