| 单词 | vicarage tea party |
| 释义 | > as lemmasvicarage tea party vicarage tea party n. used as the type of something mild, innocuous, and uneventful. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [noun] > tedious or dull thing or activity weariness1560 insipid1699 prose1743 bore1778 insipidity1822 ennui1849 yawn1889 palaver1920 bind1930 binder1930 corn1936 yawner1942 ho-hum1963 vicarage tea party1973 1973 Times 11 Apr. 1/2 Mr Heath's appearances in the Commons are never vicarage tea parties. 1984 Daily Tel. 31 Jan. 12/5 He surveyed the smoking ruins of..a fine old Elizabethan rectory,..and said: ‘It makes the Dissolution of the Monasteries look like a vicarage tea~party.’ 1984 Guardian 6 June 10 Politicians..who fear that events are about to take a nasty turn, frequently say that what they are predicting will make D-Day (or the ravages of Genghis Khan..—every speaker will have his own comparison) look like a vicarage tea party. < as lemmas |
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