单词 | thatcher |
释义 | thatchern.1 One who thatches; esp. one whose business it is to thatch houses, corn or hay ricks, etc. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > builder > [noun] > roofer > thatcher theeker14.. thacker1420 thacksterc1440 thatcherc1450 thatchester1583 stinger1808 c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 40 Alle men of crafte, as wryȝtes, smythes,..baxterys, thaccherys, cordewanerys..owyn to payin þe tythe. 1562–3 Act 5 Eliz. c. 4 §30 Tharte or Occupation of a..Thatcher or Shingler. a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 152 A thatcher hath usually two folkes to waite on him, viz. one to drawe out the thatch and make it into bottles, and the other to make morter and serve him. 1879 R. Jefferies Wild Life 123 The wind never blew that was strong enough to please the thatcher. DerivativesΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > builder > [noun] > roofer > thatcher theeker14.. thacker1420 thacksterc1440 thatcherc1450 thatchester1583 stinger1808 1583–4 Shuttleworths' Acc. (Chetham Soc.) 18 Vnto a thachester for thachinge..towe dayes and a halffe xijd. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022). Thatchern.2 Thatcher's Britain n. (also Mrs. Thatcher's Britain) Britain under the premiership of Mrs. Thatcher; (the condition of) British society as an alleged result of policies implemented by her governments. Frequently with negative connotations. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > British politics > [noun] > specific politician > Britain under specific politician Thatcher's Britain1979 1979 Economist 20 Oct. 126/1 The Economist..this week asked..how Mrs Thatcher's Britain might fare in the next two years. 1981 Guardian Weekly 12 July 6/5 Reagan's America is heading down the same miserable road as Thatcher's Britain. 1983 Summary of World Broadcasts Pt. 1: U.S.S.R. (B.B.C.) 1 Feb. SU/7246/A1/1 A far more likely explanation of the drop in industrial action in Thatcher's Britain is the grim anti-union policy that the Tories have been following. 1988 Guardian Weekly 5 June 2/1 When one of them said ‘make sure you tell them what Thatcher's Britain has done to young people’, I agreed with that young person wholeheartedly. 1989 Mod. Painters Autumn 30/3 A ‘process curiously akin to the rhetorical emphasis on freedom of choice and privatisation which characterise Mrs. Thatcher's Britain’. Draft additions September 2007 Thatcher's child n. a person for whom the premiership and policies of Margaret Thatcher are regarded as formative influences, esp. a member of the generation of Britons living (or born) in the period of her government (1979–90), or a person who has inherited aspects of her political, economic, or social ideology. ΚΠ 1986 Times 1 Sept. 1/8 ‘Thatcher's children’, the young people who have come of voting age since Mrs Margaret Thatcher arrived in Downing Street, are deeply cynical and largely apathetic about politics. 1995 Daily Mail (Nexis) 10 Oct. 9 How did the son of a Spanish Republican..and a Liberal progressive Scotswoman..become Thatcher's child? 1996 Tribune 21 June 10/4 If Labour is to win support from ‘Thatcher's children’ it must make a new deal with young people. 2003 Guardian (Nexis) 26 Apr. 32 [He] is a true Thatcher's child, citing the Iron Lady as a political heroine. 2005 Daily Tel. 22 Nov. 22/1 Most in my circle of pinko friends don't like it when I remind them that we are Thatcher's children. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1c1450n.21979 |
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