单词 | mouton enragé |
释义 | mouton enragén. A normally calm person who becomes suddenly enraged or violent. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > furious anger > [noun] > furious person > normally calm mouton enragé1826 1826 Oriental Herald May 343 Other men would think..that war on an indefinitively extensive scale should be maturely deliberated upon..before it is declared. But our ‘mouton enragé’ pursues a different course. 1896 Harper's Mag. Jan. 231/2 Young Gordon..had been eying with a vague curiosity this mouton-enragé sort of creature. 1932 Times Lit. Suppl. 27 Oct. 784/4 Her mouton enragé of a discarded adorer. 1955 J. Thomas No Banners xii. 101 Many of them were peace-loving idealists who, like moutons enragés, had been literally goaded into ridding the earth of the Nazi pestilence. 1965 Economist 23 Jan. 307/1 The most unenviable reputation as the moutons enragés of this Parliament. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1826 |
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