单词 | mr nyet |
释义 | > as lemmasMr. Nyet 2. Mr. Nyet: any person (esp. a politician in the Soviet Union) noted for having a negative or uncompromising attitude. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > politician > [noun] > negative or uncompromising Mr. Nyet1958 1958 Times 4 Oct. 5/6 Some cartoons from Iron Curtain countries..are on the whole more interesting. It is odd, for instance, to see in a cartoon of ‘Mr. Nyet’ not Mr. Khrushchev but Mr. Dulles. 1959 Daily Mail 19 May 2/6 Sir David has become Moscow's Mr. Niet. He has said ‘No’ to insistent demands for bigger credits for Russia. 1988 Independent 1 Oct. 5/5 Despite all the apparent hostility in the West to Mr Nyet—he gained his title by casting no less than 25 vetos at the United Nations Security Council in the 1950s—there was considerable respect for him [sc. A. Gromyko] as a negotiator. 2000 Current Digest of Soviet Press (Nexis) 30 Aug. 20 Mr. Sarmadi, a kind of Iranian ‘Mr. Nyet’, immediately rejected all his Russian counterpart's attempts to offer compromise proposals for resolving the Caspian impasse. < as lemmas |
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