cakeism

发音

/ˈkeɪkɪzəm/

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The doctrine of having one's cake and eating it too, particularly regarding the UK’s approach to Brexit negotiations and subsequent deliberations.

    英国 不可数 政治

    What is now known as “cakeism” – the idea that the UK can have everything it wants merely because it wants it – is becoming, like climate-change denial, the subject of rational discussion.

    The letter is the latest blatant example of British cakeism.

    The government has adopted Johnson's notorious attitude to cake – wanting to have it and to eat it – and made cakeism its defining creed.

    Cakeism is not a formula that works in government because, in reality, the cake has to be rationed and people notice.

    "Cakeism" has run riot — vast, incoherent ambitions detached from political, economic and business realities.

词源

From cake + -ism, referring to have one's cake and eat it too.

来源:wiktionary