tall poppy

短语

发音

AU

词形变化

tall poppies 复数 tall poppies

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A conspicuously successful person, especially one who attracts envious hostility.

    澳大利亚 新西兰

    1999 June 1, Polly Schneider, Australia Unbound, CIO, page 43, Like many thriving, young Australian execs, Simpson has to be wary of being construed a “tall poppy,” a cultural label placed on people who flaunt their success, based on the idea that a poppy taller than the others gets chopped down.

  2. 2.

    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see tall, poppy.

词源

A metaphor of something conspicuous that should be lopped. First use appears c. 1710.

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