单词 | parlour bolshevik |
释义 | > as lemmasparlour Bolshevik 1. Designating a person, esp. someone prosperous or middle-class, who professes belief in but does not actively support a specified (frequently radical) political view or cause, as parlour Bolshevik, parlour communist, parlour patriot, parlour pink, parlour socialist, etc.; (hence also) designating the movement or view so espoused, as parlour Bolshevism, parlour socialism, etc. Cf. armchair adj. Now somewhat archaic. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > groups or attitudes right to left > [adjective] > left > radical > professedly but not actively parlour1797 1797 S. T. Coleridge Let. 6 Feb. (1956) I. 305 Most of our patriots are tavern & parlour Patriots, that will not avow their principles by any decisive action. 1910 Ann. Libr. Index 1909 273 (title) Parlour socialists. 1915 T. Dreiser Let. 26 Apr. in Lett. H. L. Mencken (1961) 68 I hold no brief for the parlor radical. 1918 T. Roosevelt in Metrop. Mag. June Parlor or pink-tea bolshevism dear to the hearts of so many..who like to think of themselves as intellectuals. 1920 F. S. Fitzgerald This Side of Paradise ii. v. 290 ‘What are you,’ asked the big man, ‘one of these parlor Bolsheviks, one of these idealists?’ 1922 R. Nevill Yesterday & Today i. 14 What may be called ‘Society Socialism’ is an entirely modern development, pretty well limited to England and America where the ‘Parlour Socialist’ has become recognized as a regular type. 1929 F. P. Gibbons Red Napoleon 67 Margot was more than a parlour pink; she was an ardent internationalist. 1938 G. T. Garratt Shadow of Swastika 201 Mr. Neville Chamberlain remained..invincible because of his backing amongst the very wealthy and influential parlour fascists outside. 1939 C. Isherwood Goodbye to Berlin 105 Wasn't I a bit of a sham..with my arty talk..and my newly-acquired parlour-socialism? 1954 A. Koestler Invisible Writing iii. 40 The most fashionable poet among the snobs and parlour-Communists of the period was Bertold Brecht. 1976 S. Hynes Auden Generation x. 367 The stock notion of the 'thirties writer as a New Country parlour-communist. 1998 Augusta Chron. (Georgia) (Nexis) 9 June a5 The two-bit parlor socialists who can't win a debate in wider society, but can easily impose their nonsense on a grade-fearing student audience. < as lemmas |
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