| 单词 | spear-carrier |
| 释义 | > as lemmasspear-carrier spear-carrier n. a carrier of a spear, a spearman: transferred as (a) originally Theatre slang, an actor with a walk-on part; hence, an unimportant participant; (b) U.S. colloquial, a proponent or ‘standard-bearer’ (cf. spear-head n. 1b). ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > one who is unimportant > types of cipher?1507 cog1934 spear-carrier1960 token1968 the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > support > support or encouragement > [noun] > supporter or encourager friendOE procurera1325 fautorc1330 voweec1380 corner-stonec1384 abettor1387 vocatec1390 procurator1395 maintainer?a1400 proctora1413 supporter1426 comforter1483 factorc1503 allower1528 advancer1536 affirmer?1541 agreer1548 encourager1562 fortifierc1565 favourer1567 aim-crier1597 suffragator1606 seconder1623 countenancera1625 affectionate1628 adstipulator1646 flesher1646 fauterera1662 advocate1735 sympathizer1816 sympathista1834 advocator1837 ite1852 rooter1889 spear-carrier1960 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > actor > [noun] > actor playing specific type of part > with little or nothing to say property boy1685 supernumerary1755 walking gentleman1769 walking lady1769 figurant1775 statist1807 showgirl?1836 super1838 walker-on1876 property child1885 supe1885 walk-on1923 spear-carrier1960 1960 New Yorker 13 Aug. 97/1 The ‘Quartet’ is full of characters who in one novel may seem irritatingly superfluous spear-carriers,..but who in the ‘Quartet’ turn out to be members of a literary repertory company. 1963 Times 20 May 12/5 Most of those spear-carriers not only don't know where the United States is but they don't know where they are themselves. 1967 N.Y. Times 21 May 26/1 Dr. King had ‘emerged as the public spear~carrier of a civil disobedience program’. 1976 Times 18 Mar. 10 In Wisconsin on the same day Representative Morris Udall, the ‘liberal-progressive’ spear carrier, will have to win to stay in the race. 1981 N. Marsh Black Beech & Honeydew (rev. ed.) x. 215 The students..would begin to accept the enormous challenge of a Shakespeare play and their own real importance, if only as spear-carriers, in doing so. 1982 Sunday Sun-Times (Chicago) 20 June 100/1 By the time Breakfast at Wimbledon telecasts are beamed into the United States on Fourth of July weekend, American tennis pros Davis, Dunk and Hardie will have vacated their present lodging and be long gone from the venerable tournament that they graced momentarily as spear-carriers. < as lemmas |
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