单词 | public school-bred |
释义 | > as lemmaspublic school-bred public school-bred, public school-educated, public-school–Oxford, etc., adjs. ΚΠ a1867 M. Faraday in H. Barnard True Student Life (1873) 456 The sciences, of which I notice a great and general ignorance even among our best public school educated men. 1914 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 51 163 Put a public-school-educated, healthy family into a filthy house, and it will be a different dwelling by the morning. 1940 Times 6 Feb. 2/6 (advt.) Help, will cook for one or handle lighter house duties; public school educated. 1943 M. Schlauch Gift of Tongues 264 English writers themselves have sometimes jeered at certain details of ‘public school-Oxford’ speech as being affected. 1952 A. Koestler Arrow in Blue xxviii. 263 Public School-bred Foreign Office diplomats like Guy Burgess and Donald MacLean. 1971 A. H. Halsey & M. A. Trow Brit. Academics xv. 421 41 per cent of the public school educated teachers place themselves on the Left. 1996 Daily Tel. 31 Dec. 16/6 The song of Harmodios and Aristogeiton, two public school-type chaps who tried to assassinate the Peisistratid tyrants, became a kind of Athenian national anthem. 2005 Slate Mag. (Nexis) 18 Nov. All form and sterling elocution, he is every inch the English public-school-bred bogeyman. < as lemmas |
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