| 单词 | sub-napoleon |
| 释义 | > as lemmassub-Napoleon (ii) Prefixed to personal names, forming nouns denoting and adjectives designating a person who or thing which is similar to or characteristic of the person in question, but is in some way inferior, as sub-Napoleon, etc.Chiefly in ad hoc formations. ΚΠ 1927 W. Lewis Lion & Fox 186 Raskolnikov furnishes us with the curious spectacle of another of these sub-Napoleons in action. 1934 W. Lewis Men without Art ii. v. 169 A little old-maidish, are the Prousts and sub-Prousts I think. 1954 Times 10 May 9/3 Abel's quartet was a charming piece of sub-Mozart with galant cadences. 1963 Times Lit. Suppl. 5 Apr. 235/2 Here is the eternal sex-life of the American college girl told in the eternal sub-Salinger..style. 1968 J. Bingham I love, I Kill xi. 132 It was called Deeper in the South..kind of sub-Tennessee Williams. 1977 Listener 28 July 122/3 A pregnant older lady who paints sub-Ernst surrealities. 1995 New Yorker 25 Dec. 100/2 It was a strong enough plot, but it was written in what the author calls ‘sub-Joyce’. < as lemmas |
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