Afghanistanism

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The practice of concentrating on problems in distant parts of the world while ignoring controversial local issues. countable,uncountable
    — I don't wish to belabor this subject of Afghanistanism, this business of taking forthright stands on elections in Costa Rica, while the uncollected local garbage reeks beneath the editor's window.

词形变化

Afghanistanisms plural

词源

From Afghanistan + -ism. The first recorded use is by Jenkin Lloyd Jones, editor of the Tulsa Tribune, in 1948; see quotation below.
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