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单词 Hooray Henry
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Definition of Hooray Henry in English:

Hooray Henry

nounPlural Hooray Henries, Plural Hooray Henrys huːreɪ ˈhɛnri
British informal
  • A lively but ineffectual young upper-class man.

    a bunch of Hooray Henrys with more money than sense
    Example sentencesExamples
    • News footage from Britain in 1987 shows champagne-swilling Hooray Henrys uncorking Bolly in celebration of Nigel Lawson's tax-cutting budget.
    • There will be no crackdown on Hooray Henrys spilling out of champagne bars and abusing people.
    • The younger members, the aforesaid Hooray Henries, think they have the right to ride their horses roughshod wherever they like causing substantial damage.
    • If the plan works, there will be no images of Hooray Henries, outlandish hedonism or general drunkenness in the tabloids on Friday morning.
    • Despite their portrayal as Hooray Henrys in knotted hankies, the Lions supporters have been wonderfully good-tempered.
    • If colleges really did take students on the basis of their father's money they would end up with a bunch of Hooray Henrys and lose all credibility.
    • And what would be the academics' motives for selecting less able Hooray Henrys to teach for the next three years?
    • ‘Educated’ at Harrow public school, Mark stood out even among his fellow Hooray Henrys, earning the nickname ‘Thickie’.
    • A Hooray Henry of the most braying sort regaled his two female acquaintances - and thus the entire carriage - with his stories of earning obscene amounts of money at an investment bank.
    • He ought already to have condemned the Hooray Henrys who disrupted the Commons.
 
 
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