| 单词 | not fit to run a whelk stall |
| 释义 | not fit to run a whelk stall incapable of managing the simplest task or enterprise [first used by the British socialist politician John Burns (1858–1943) in a speech in January 1894 in which he referred to the Social-Democratic Federation as ‘men who fancy they are Admirable Crichtons … but who have not got sufficient brains to run a whelk stall’. The whelk stall was probably symbolic of work regarded as leisurely and undemanding]Main Entry: whelk |
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