| 单词 | schoolboy code of honour |
| 释义 | > as lemmasschoolboy code of honour schoolboy code of honour n. a code of honour governing the behaviour of schoolboys, such as not telling tales, etc.; (more generally) a moral code that is simplistic or rigid. ΚΠ 1842 New Monthly Mag. 66 60 Certain lies are not only permitted, but enjoined by the whole authority of the schoolboy code of honour, in the intercourse between scholars and their teachers. 1874 C. M. Yonge Lady Hester vii. 169 The boy endured all the rage and scorn that a threat so contrary to all schoolboy codes of honour..might deserve. 1903 School Jrnl. 5 Sept. 194/2 The chief maxim of the recognized schoolboy code of honour—that one boy must not tell anything against another. 1999 B. S. Ash Writing in Between ii. iii. 79 [Lord] Jim..the desperate martyr to a schoolboy code of honor. < as lemmas |
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