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Definition of sacred cow in English: sacred cownoun An idea, custom, or institution held to be above criticism (with reference to the Hindus' respect for the cow as a holy animal) the sacred cow of monetarism the British diet remains a sacred cow Example sentencesExamples - McGruder is the creative genius behind The Boondocks, a five-year-old comic strip that honors no sacred cows and eviscerates politicians of all stripes.
- The ascent of star presenter over stubborn creator will be dissected in the coming weeks, along with the sacred cows of public subsidy and the education industry.
- In that case, his leadership was the sacred cow.
- When is a traditional practice a sacred cow, however, and when is it an important cornerstone to safe patient care?
- Because the NHS is the sacred cow of British politics - with no party willing to admit that they are prepared to retreat from the central commitment to fund a free service, whatever it costs - we have still not got to the heart of the matter.
- In perioperative nursing, we speak of our sacred cows, which are those ideas and practices so deeply entrenched in what we do that they are impediments to change.
- That's unlikely: Taking on such sacred cows would be political suicide.
- Another sacred cow is that the market knows best.
- You have to slay the sacred cows, publicly, in a high-profile way.
- Selected for screening at the prestigious Raindance Film Festival last year, the film has attracted widespread notoriety for its criticism of one of the sacred cows of development thinking: fair trade.
- Old assumptions are being questioned, sacred cows slaughtered, new ideas floated.
- On another note, the Rocket Prof had better stay anonymous if he's going to take on sacred cows like global warming.
- It's true that the social institution of the Domestic Violence shelter has become a sacred cow, never to be challenged or disputed.
- The idea of paying bloggers is a controversial one, as it challenges some of the sacred cows of the journalistic publishing business.
- It will also need a radical rethink of some of our current sacred cows in foreign policy, e.g., the extent to which it is driven by trade.
- There's nothing like a little sacred cow bashing to get people to listen!
- We need constructive criticism of our most sacred cows.
- From the Diefenbaker era to the end of the Mulroney years, federal regional development programmes were a sacred cow in Canada, and successive governments rivalled each other in seeking new forms of organization to carry it out.
- ‘Family’ tends to be a sacred cow but personally I disagree.
- It has consistently tackled the sacred cows of sex, religion and politics with wit, irony and hard criticism leaving behind carcasses of exposed folly and evil.
Synonyms tradition, practice, usage, observance, way, convention, procedure, ceremony, ritual, ordinance, form, formality, fashion, mode, manner
Definition of sacred cow in US English: sacred cownounˈseɪkrɪd ˌkaʊˈsākrid ˌkou An idea, custom, or institution held, especially unreasonably, to be above criticism (with reference to the Hindus' respect for the cow as a sacred animal) the sacred cow of monetarism the British diet remains a sacred cow Example sentencesExamples - There's nothing like a little sacred cow bashing to get people to listen!
- That's unlikely: Taking on such sacred cows would be political suicide.
- The ascent of star presenter over stubborn creator will be dissected in the coming weeks, along with the sacred cows of public subsidy and the education industry.
- From the Diefenbaker era to the end of the Mulroney years, federal regional development programmes were a sacred cow in Canada, and successive governments rivalled each other in seeking new forms of organization to carry it out.
- In that case, his leadership was the sacred cow.
- On another note, the Rocket Prof had better stay anonymous if he's going to take on sacred cows like global warming.
- Another sacred cow is that the market knows best.
- McGruder is the creative genius behind The Boondocks, a five-year-old comic strip that honors no sacred cows and eviscerates politicians of all stripes.
- ‘Family’ tends to be a sacred cow but personally I disagree.
- Selected for screening at the prestigious Raindance Film Festival last year, the film has attracted widespread notoriety for its criticism of one of the sacred cows of development thinking: fair trade.
- It has consistently tackled the sacred cows of sex, religion and politics with wit, irony and hard criticism leaving behind carcasses of exposed folly and evil.
- We need constructive criticism of our most sacred cows.
- Old assumptions are being questioned, sacred cows slaughtered, new ideas floated.
- You have to slay the sacred cows, publicly, in a high-profile way.
- When is a traditional practice a sacred cow, however, and when is it an important cornerstone to safe patient care?
- The idea of paying bloggers is a controversial one, as it challenges some of the sacred cows of the journalistic publishing business.
- It's true that the social institution of the Domestic Violence shelter has become a sacred cow, never to be challenged or disputed.
- Because the NHS is the sacred cow of British politics - with no party willing to admit that they are prepared to retreat from the central commitment to fund a free service, whatever it costs - we have still not got to the heart of the matter.
- In perioperative nursing, we speak of our sacred cows, which are those ideas and practices so deeply entrenched in what we do that they are impediments to change.
- It will also need a radical rethink of some of our current sacred cows in foreign policy, e.g., the extent to which it is driven by trade.
Synonyms tradition, practice, usage, observance, way, convention, procedure, ceremony, ritual, ordinance, form, formality, fashion, mode, manner
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