| 单词 | mountebank politics |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmountebank politics b. In the sense ‘of, relating to, or characteristic of a mountebank’, as mountebank mummery, mountebank politics, mountebank stage, etc. ΚΠ 1614 S. Latham Falconry To Rdr. I could haue vsed a more mountebanque preface. 1713 A. Pope Narr. Robert Norris 24 He hath told others..that he had seen me upon a Mountebank Stage in Moorfields. 1803 Lit. Mag. Oct. 71/2 The lower orders of the people are mightily pleased with these processions and fetes, while the higher orders seem to despise them as mountebank mummery, and the foppery of republicanism. 1852 W. E. Gladstone in Edinb. Rev. Apr. 358 Theatrical, not to say charlatan and mountebank, politics. 1860 W. Collins Woman in White (new ed.) III. 304 The extraordinary mixture of prompt decision, far-sighted cunning, and mountebank bravado in this speech, staggered me for a moment. 1937 D. L. Sayers Busman's Honeymoon xvi. 328 While this poor, passionate, mountebank body has hands to hold you. 1997 Scotsman 28 July 15/5 I suspect that in ten years' time journalists will do anything to avoid covering the mountebank tedium of a platitude-uttering Scottish assembly. < as lemmas |
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