flak catcher

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person whose job is to conduct public relations by shielding a more prominent person by intercepting and deflecting complaints and criticism.
    — As the mau-mauing brigade heads downtown to the welfare office, they run into the chief flak catcher.

词形变化

flak catchers plural flak-catcher alternative flack catcher alternative flack-catcher alternative

词源

Coined by American author and journalist Tom Wolfe in his 1970 book Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, from flak, meaning "criticism".
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