单词 | ozzie and harriet |
释义 | Ozzie and Harrietn.adj. U.S. A. n. allusively. A married couple, esp. regarded as exemplifying traditional, wholesome, or idealized domesticity. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > [noun] > married people > married couple couple1393 pairc1400 married couplea1625 happy couple1631 man and wife1749 Ozzie and Harriet1974 1974 N.Y. Times 21 Apr. ii.15/1 We didn't start our careers as a team and we don't want to be the Ozzie and Harriet of rock. 1981 Washington Post 13 Sept. g3/1 Ed and Lorraine Warren come across as the Ozzie and Harriet of the investigators into the supernatural. He is big and burly and gruffly good-natured; she is sweet and maternal, primly unflappable. 1983 Sojourner (Nexis) 31 May 12 The future, as set down by Andrea Dworkin, is not a happy one full of optimistic Ozzies and Harriets, but rather a world in which the womb is first a ward and then a prisoner of the state. 2001 N.Y. Times 11 Mar. xiv. 1/3 The thing is, what do your average 2001 Ozzie and Harriets need to get through two or three days trapped inside their Restoration Hardware homes? B. adj. allusively. Designating something regarded as reminiscent of The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet radio and television series; esp. displaying the characteristics of a traditional married couple or exemplifying traditional, wholesome, or idealized domesticity. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > [adjective] > relating to or characteristic of married persons married1598 Ozzie and Harriet1980 1980 Associated Press Newswire (Nexis) 29 Dec. Family life doesn't fit the Ozzie-and-Harriet stereotype at a home shared by two families in west Oklahoma City. 1989 Jrnl. Econ. Perspectives 3 22 Nor should it be seen as a nostalgic call to return to an Ozzie and Harriet 1950s American family. 1993 Nation 18 Oct. 436/2 Father care runs counter to the 1950s Ozzie and Harriet ideal and the 1970s and 1980s supermom. 1998 Gender & Society 12 77 Even in a relatively progressive state like Vermont, the debate rehabilitated the old and largely discredited bromides about the sanctity of the Ozzie and Harriet family. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1974 |
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