| 单词 | thatcher's child |
| 释义 | > as lemmasThatcher's child 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. < as lemmas |
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