lunatic fringe

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A woman's hairstyle in which the hair is cut square across the forehead. archaic,historical
  2. A minority political or social group espousing extreme, fanatical, or irrational views.
    — Among the wise and high-minded people who in self-respecting and genuine fashion strive earnestly for peace, there are the foolish fanatics always to be found in such a movement and always discrediting it — the men who form the lunatic fringe in all reform movements.

词形变化

lunatic fringes plural

词源

The figurative sense was popularized by U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, originally in reference to Cubist and Futurist art.
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