单词 | puppet government |
释义 | > as lemmaspuppet government b. Appositive (chiefly in senses 3a and 3c), as puppet government, puppet king, puppet ruler, puppet state, etc. ΚΠ 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xxiv. 853/2 To salute this puppet King, and to welcome these papals. a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) II. 196 He is but a Puppet Saint, that moves he knows not how. 1715 N. Rowe Lady Jane Gray iv. i Their puppet queen reigns here. 1774 R. Lloyd Poet. Wks. II. 127 Can you bow down with reverent awe Before this puppet king of straw? 1817 S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. xxiii. 286 She very much reminds us of those puppet-heroines, for whom the showman contrives to dialogue without any skill in ventriloquism. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xiii. 299 Scotland would have been a smaller Poland, with a puppet sovereign, a turbulent diet, and an enslaved people. 1935 (title) The puppet state of ‘Manchukuo’. 1971 Standard (Dar es Salaam) 7 Apr. 1/1 Those present [at the conference] were undecided about the relative merits of the Sihanouk Government and the American puppet regime. 1992 Daily Mirror TV Weekly 3 Oct. 5/2 If you want noise, dazzle, big furry puppet dogs who fight the cameras..ask your minder to wake you at 7am. < as lemmas |
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