英语词汇“the love that dare not speak its name”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

the love that dare not speak its name

1An allusive term for homosexuality.

First appearing in ‘Two Loves’, a poem by the British author Lord Alfred Douglas (1870–1945), the phrase is popularly associated with Oscar Wilde as a result of its use during his trial for homosexual offences in 1895

1.1Used to refer to a preference or practice regarded as unacceptable or taboo: a fondness for nuclear power was the love that dare not speak its name among green campaigners...

For the LNP, privatisation could be the love that dare not speak its name.
One Tory MP has suggested that Europhilia on his party's backbenches was now "the love that dare not speak its name".
I have fallen prey to the love that dare not speak its name: I am in the thrall of a music that is not cool, never will be cool, and never has been cool.

See parent entry: love

单词	the love that dare not speak its name
释义	the love that dare not speak its name 1An allusive term for homosexuality. First appearing in ‘Two Loves’, a poem by the British author Lord Alfred Douglas (1870–1945), the phrase is popularly associated with Oscar Wilde as a result of its use during his trial for homosexual offences in 1895 1.1Used to refer to a preference or practice regarded as unacceptable or taboo: a fondness for nuclear power was the love that dare not speak its name among green campaigners... For the LNP, privatisation could be the love that dare not speak its name. One Tory MP has suggested that Europhilia on his party's backbenches was now "the love that dare not speak its name". I have fallen prey to the love that dare not speak its name: I am in the thrall of a music that is not cool, never will be cool, and never has been cool. See parent entry: love
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