| 单词 | barefoot, pregnant, and chained to the kitchen sink |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbarefoot, pregnant, and chained to the kitchen sink P2. Used in various phrases referring (with varying degrees of literal meaning) to the kitchen sink as a metonym for housework or domestic drudgery, typically in criticizing the traditional assumptions that menial household chores are appropriate responsibilities for a woman, and that women are naturally suited to performing them. Esp. in chained (also tied, etc.) to the kitchen sink and variants: confined to or trapped in a life of unending domestic drudgery. Also in barefoot, pregnant, and chained to the kitchen sink and variants. Cf. a woman's place is in the home at woman n. Phrases 1f. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > work > [noun] > women's work distaffc1386 woman's work1890 kitchen sink1926 kinder, kirche, küche1935 1926 E. R. Wembridge in Survey 1 Dec. 297/2 Daisy could not adjust herself..to the picture of herself as a Mrs. Finch, perpetually chained to the kitchen sink. 1969 Canberra Times 19 Aug. 14/6 I thoroughly enjoy cooking, as I think a lot of women do, I just don't believe women want to be tied to the kitchen sink. 1969 Guardian 6 Nov. 9/5 A situation in which married women find it impossible to return to work and have to return once more to the kitchen sink. 1994 R. Porter London xv. 344 Demobbed majors dusted down their brollies; wives left munitions work and went back to the kitchen sink. 2004 Daily Mail (Nexis) 30 Oct. (Weekend section) 19 He is the original male chauvinist pig who likes his women barefoot, pregnant and chained to the kitchen sink. < as lemmas |
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