Thatcher's child
noun
A person for whom the premiership and policies of Margaret Thatcher are regarded as formative influences, especially a member of the generation of Britons living (or born) in the period of her government (1979–90), or a person who has inherited aspects of her political, economic, or social ideology.
Origin
1980s; earliest use found in The Times.
- drink with the flies
- drip
- drip-dry
- drip feed
- dripless
- drip mat
- drip moulding
- drippily
- drippiness
- dripping
- drippy
- dripstone
- drivability
- drivable
- drive
- drive a coach and horses through
- drive a hard bargain
- drive a nail into the coffin of
- drive a wedge between
- drive bay
- drive belt
- drive-by
- drive-by-wire
- drive chain
- drive-in