单词 | schoolboy honour |
释义 | > as lemmasschoolboy honour schoolboy honour n. honour characteristic of a schoolboy; moral principles that are simplistic, rigid, etc.; cf. schoolboy code of honour n. ΚΠ 1838 J. Kenyon Poems 50 Rufus... Scorner of each rule ! Not held quite ‘raff’, nor quite without a flaw, If tried by school-boy honour's nicer law. 1876 C. M. Yonge Womankind xviii. 138 To keep up a standard of real honour, above schoolboy honour, is most needful. 1970 P. Y. Carter Mr. Campion's Falcon xxii. 166 He has a sense of schoolboy honour, a perfectly straightforward code. 2000 Independent (Nexis) 23 July 26 We need doctors who put patients first and blow the whistle loud... The last thing patients need is schoolboy honour. < as lemmas |
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