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单词 too posh to push
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too posh to push
British colloquial (usually depreciative). too posh to push: designating a woman who chooses to have an elective caesarean section rather than undergo vaginal delivery (with the suggestion that comparatively affluent women are more likely to have or make such a choice).
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1999 Daily Mail 26 Jan. 36 (heading) Are you too posh to push? The way you give birth has become the status symbol of our times.
2002 Independent 9 Oct. (Review section) 11/1 The notion that a growing number of women are ‘too posh to push’—opting for scheduled Caesareans at private hospitals to avoid the pain and inconvenience of natural birth—is another slur, she says.
2013 Daily Tel. 20 June 5/1 By choosing a natural birth, showing she is not ‘too posh to push’, the Duchess of Cambridge has made the right decision.
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