| 单词 | blue funk school |
| 释义 | > as lemmasblue funk school blue funk school n. colloquial (now historical) a jocular name for blue water school n. at blue water n. Compounds 2 (with the suggestion that its beliefs are unnecessarily fearful or alarmist). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > fear > nervousness or uneasiness > nervous or uneasy [phrase] > collective nervousness or uneasiness blue funk school1904 1904 Speaker 24 Nov. 218/1 It is pleasant to remember what a fuss the foundation of this preposterous concern caused among our naval experts of the Blue Funk school, as Mr. A. J. Wilson calls them. 1910 G. K. Chesterton What's Wrong with World iv. 26 The man who called the Blue Water School the ‘Blue Funk School’ uttered a psychological truth which that school itself would scarcely essentially deny. 1974 A. J. Anthony Morris Edwardian Radicalism x. 171 Rumours that Germany was answering the British reduction by an accelerated building programme..added fuel to the furnace of the ‘blue funk school’. 2004 G. R. Searle New Eng.? (2005) viii. 245 To the members of what they disparagingly called the ‘blue funk’ school, navalists..opposed sound ‘blue water’ doctrine, insisting that, so long as Britain commanded the sea lanes, all would be well. < as lemmas |
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