| 单词 | sacred cow |
| 释义 | sacred cowWord forms: plural sacred cows countable noun If you describe a belief, custom, or institution as a sacred cow, you disapprove of people treating it with too much respect and being afraid to criticize or question it. [disapproval] ...the sacred cow of monetarism. [+ of] sacred cow in British Englishnoun informal a person, institution, custom, etc, unreasonably held to be beyond criticism Word origin alluding to the Hindu belief that cattle are sacredsacred cow in American English US any person or thing regarded as above criticism or attack |
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