Former President George H.W. Bush doesn't hold back about President Donald J. Trump in his new book.
The rise and rise of the self-service business raises two worries in particular. The first is for society as a whole. Consumers are being ever more clearly divided into a “cattle class”, herded into the back of the cabin and offered precious little service, and a pampered “business class”, for whom no amount of fawning is too much. The second worry is for businesses themselves. Although self-service is great for saving costs, its effect over time is to train customers to shop on price, with little loyalty http://econ.st/1cMH7vm
"York lies; he might have sent and had the horse;
I owe him little duty, and less love;
And take foul scorn to fawn on him by sending."
--Duke of Somerset from "Henry VI, Part I" (5.3)4：4
I owe him little duty, and less love;
And take foul scorn to fawn on him by sending."
--Duke of Somerset from "Henry VI, Part I" (5.3)4：4
那他是在說謊，他為什麼不直接派騎兵去？
我對他沒有什麼義務，更談不上有什麼感情；
我斷不屑於借派兵來討他的好。
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3 posts - 2 authors 不屑Hi, and think foul scorn that Parma or Spain, or any prince of Europe, should dare to invade the borders of my realms. In simple modern terms, I'd say
OBAMA: Look, Dick, you’ve called me out on various particulars. And I have no problem with that. That’s politics. You thought Khalid Shaikh Mohammed should not be tried in New York City, and that’s fine.
And we both know that any blowhard can call me weak. But you’re not just any blowhard, Dick. You were the architect of America’s defense against terrorism. And when those folks sitting in a cave in Waziristan hear you chest-thumping, saying our guard is down, they think, “Hey, this might be a good time to attack.”
President Obama continues life in the H.O.V. lane, fawned over by the press and the crowned heads of Europe. In between apologies, the president should have reminded those pompous blowhards that without our interference, they would all be speaking German.
atthew d'Ancona: ignorant sycophant
By Devil's Kitchen
For a start, it signals a radically increased role for charities and voluntary groups in the ... and voluntary groups", surely the state will not need more money? ... Mr Bloom, you may recall, rose to prominence in 2004 when he declared ...
blowhard
n. Informal
A boaster or braggart.
toady
n., pl. -ies.
A person who flatters or defers to others for self-serving reasons; a sycophant.
tr. & intr.v., -ied, -y·ing, -ies.
To be a toady to or behave like a toady. See synonyms at fawn1.
[From TOAD.]
WORD HISTORY The earliest recorded sense (around 1690) of toady is “a little or young toad,” but this has nothing to do with the modern usage of the word. The modern sense has rather to do with the practice of certain quacks or charlatans who claimed that they could draw out poisons. Toads were thought to be poisonous, so these charlatans would have an attendant eat or pretend to eat a toad and then claim to extract the poison from the attendant. Since eating a toad is an unpleasant job, these attendants came to epitomize the type of person who would do anything for a superior, and toadeater (first recorded 1629) became the name for a flattering, fawning parasite. Toadeater and the verb derived from it, toadeat, influenced the sense of the noun and verb toad and the noun toady, so that both nouns could mean “sycophant” and the verb toady could mean “to act like a toady to someone.”
sycophant
(sĭk'ə-fənt, sī'kə-)
n.
A servile self-seeker who attempts to win favor by flattering influential people.
[Latin s[ymacr]cophanta, informer, slanderer, from Greek sūkophantēs, informer, from sūkon phainein, to show a fig (probably originally said of denouncers of theft or exportation of figs) : sūkon, fig + phainein, to show.]
syc・o・phant
syc・o・phan・cy ━━ n. 追従(ついしょう), へつらい. syc・o・phan・tic
━━ a.President Obama continues life in the H.O.V. lane, fawned over by the press and the crowned heads of Europe. In between apologies, the president should have reminded those pompous blowhards that without our interference, they would all be speaking German.
fawn1 (fôn)
intr.v., fawned, fawn·ing, fawns.
- To exhibit affection or attempt to please, as a dog does by wagging its tail, whining, or cringing.
- To seek favor or attention by flattery and obsequious behavior.
[Middle English faunen, from Old English fagnian, to rejoice, from fagen, fægen, glad.]
fawner fawn'er n.fawningly fawn'ing·ly adv.
SYNONYMS fawn, apple-polish, bootlick, kowtow, slaver, toady, truckle. These verbs mean to curry favor by behaving obsequiously and submissively: fawned on her superior; students apple-polishing the teacher; bootlicked to get a promotion; lawyers kowtowing to a judge; slavered over his rich uncle; toadying to members of the club; nobles truckling to the king.
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