| 词汇 | tinpot |
| 释义 | tinpot adjective[ before noun ] informaldisapproving(alsotin-pot)uk /ˈtɪn.pɒt/ us /ˈtɪn.pɑːt/ not important or deserving respect: What was the good of a BA from that tinpot university anyway? a tinpot dictator They treated us like a tin-pot banana republic instead of a sovereign country. The British people spent the war trying to laugh at the tinpot dictators they were fighting. He's playing now for some tinpot club in Essex. The country was run by a junta of tin-pot military dictators. Ruling & governing administration affairs of state ascend ascend the throneidiom bipartisanship government-sponsored governmental governmentally governorate hard Brexitidiom oppression oppressive oppressively oppressiveness overgovern subjection subjugate subjugation super-government the politburo You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Of little or less importance Powerful people & dictators Examples of tinpottinpot It is down to him—a tinpot dictator of the worst order. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This is a political argument, and not just a tinpot parliamentary one. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Never mind about those tinpot civil servants who took the decision. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The anthropological arrogance of 20th century man in his tinpot motor-cars riding through the streets of the lovely spaceship we call the world is heartbreaking. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is not one of the lessons to be learnt that we should not keep selling arms to those tinpot regimes? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are too small a country to be able to afford all these little tinpot concerns in our ports. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Even the worst tinpot dictator could not conjure up a more reliable recipe for a low-wage and low-skilled economy in areas such as mine. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Those are the policies that the people out there are shouting for, not these tinpot charters. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is wrong for some tinpot manager to make decisions without consulting the men. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That was most apposite, given that we are led by a tinpot dictator. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is impossible for them to have good husbandry on these tinpot plots. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 People think that they can come up with tinpot answers and solve the problem. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is to the benefit of the up-to-date mines that what he calls these tinpot mines should be closed. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is a tinpot mish-mash of verbiage, mixing ethics and jurisprudence. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He is prepared to appear on that medium every day of the week, five times a day on any tinpot subject under the sun. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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