| 单词 | thought-saver |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthought-saver thought-saver n. (a) a person who saves himself or herself the trouble of thinking; (b) something used to save a person thinking-time or the trouble of thinking; spec. a trite expression, a cliché. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > phrase > [noun] > cliché glittering generality1849 cliché1881 thought-saver1931 1844 N. P. Willis in New Mirror 27 Jan. 270/2 There will be, doubtless, the class of thought-savers. 1892 Med. Advance 28 484 What a thought saver! What economy of cerebral substance! 1911 K. Cox Classic Point of View v. 185 The actual result..has been merely to install blue instead of brown, as a thought-saver and time-saver. 1931 L. Steffens Autobiogr. iii. i. 632 They were thoughtless conservatives..whose thought-saver was: ‘My father was a Republican, and what was good enough for him is good enough for me.’ 1963 Times Lit. Suppl. 10 May 342/3 Those old thought-savers ‘the imagination of England’ and ‘the American mind’. 1993 D. N. McCloskey in M. A. Ferber & J. A. Nelson Beyond Econ. Man iv. 89 Men tend to think it satisfactory to find one loose end and pull hard. The young Karl Popper advocated just such a procedure, a thought-saver beloved ever since by young men. 1996 Mountain Democrat (Placerville, Calif.) 18 Oct. c 1/1 You'll rarely find a Realtor, or any successful businessman, who doesn't have at least one pen in his possession at all times. It's the deal maker. It's the thought saver. < as lemmas |
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