buggy whip

短语

无线电天线（多指汽车上的天线）

词形变化

buggy whips 复数 buggy whips

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A horsewhip with a long stiff shaft and a relatively short lash, used for driving a horse harnessed to a buggy or other small open carriage.

    历史
  2. 2.

    An obsolete product or technology.

    比喻

    went the way of the buggy whip

词汇关系

名词

上位词 1

horsewhip

词源

In the twentieth century, after the advent of widespread automobile use and diminished horse use, the buggy whip became a symbol of obsoleted technologies and disrupted business models. Popularized by German-American economist and professor at Harvard Business School Theodore Levitt in 1960.

来源：wiktionary