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词汇 bandwagon
释义 bandwagon
noun[ Cusually singular ]
uk /ˈbændˌwæɡ.ən/ us /ˈbændˌwæɡ.ən/
an activity, group, movement, etc. that has become successful or fashionable and so attracts many new people: 流行,浪潮,时尚
a bandwagon effect从众效应
First one boy at school had that haircut and now they're all jumping on the bandwagon.
Now it seems that every single charity in town has jumped on the fundraising bandwagon.
All the kids began to collect and swap the cards, and it wasn't long before other companies got on the bandwagon.
Now we see another TV company climbing on the 'reality TV' bandwagon.
Coming after so many films recreating comic-book heroes, is this just another attempt to jump on the bandwagon?
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Successful (things or people)
a head of steamidiom
achiever
alive
alpha female
alpha male
arrive
ascendant
have the world at your feetidiom
healthily
heavy hitteridiom
high-flyer
high-flying
pocket
rail
represent
successfully
superachiever
superhit
superseller
swimmingly

Idiom


jump/climb/get on the bandwagon

bandwagon | American Dictionary


bandwagon
noun[ Cusually sing ]
us/ˈbændˌwæɡ·ən/
an activity or idea that has become very popular

Idiom


jump on the bandwagon

bandwagon | Business English


bandwagon
noun[ C,usually singular ]
uk /ˈbændˌwæɡən/us
an activity, group, etc., that has become successful or fashionable and so attracts many new people:
A similar force is the peer group bandwagon: I may watch a television programme not only because I like it but because I want to be able to converse with my peer group.
 jump/climb/get on the bandwagondisapproving
to become involved in an activity that is already successful so that you can get the advantages of it yourself:
The success of the product led many firms to try to jump on the bandwagon.

Examples of bandwagon


bandwagon
On bandwagons, tyranny, and common sense.
Notoriously, from my point of view, local bandwagons tend to be against renewable energy schemes rather than in favour of them.
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I dare may that bandwagons and flat-backed lorries are also covered.
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The phrase "jumping on bandwagons" comes to mind.
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The trouble is that politicians jump on certain bandwagons to try to point out and identify areas in which there are problems.
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Jumping on bandwagons is one of their specialities, and sitting on them so comfortably is another.
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Various bandwagons have jumped on to value capture.
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I am sure that it will not be repeated in terms of the regional bandwagons, from which point of view it is completely irrelevant.
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Will he take back his remarks about bandwagons?
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However, we are all liable to the occupational disease of climbing on to bandwagons in favour of more spending on fashionable good causes or fashionable demands for tax relief.
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Pictures which have inspired bandwagons and memes include the ambulance and the shark attacking a helicopter.
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One of the key hypotheses is what he calls 'bandwagon competition'.
The lexical entry can also specify that bandwagon in its metaphorical sense occurs as the object of jump on.
The 1960s were a difficult time for evolutionary biologists, who were feeling, and actually suffering, the impact of the molecular biology bandwagon.
Career-minded individuals in other fields of science quickly jumped on the new bandwagon.
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