underpants gnome

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Someone who makes incomplete plans with missing steps; someone who plans unsuccessfully. derogatory,slang
    — 2. ? 3. Profit! Do you think their plan is missing something? They know Success in Programming 53 There Is No Try It's a Question of Passion Don't Plan Like an Underpants Gnome.
  2. A plan with missing steps; an incomplete plan. attributive,derogatory,slang
    — Like the rest of Trump World, Page brought a kind of Underpants Gnome theory to his bromance with Team Putin. Through some unknown alchemy, he expected to benefit Trump and gain influence and profit from his Russia foray.

词形变化

underpants gnomes plural

词源

Named for the Underpants Gnomes, characters in the South Park episode “Gnomes” (1998) who stole underpants from children as part of a plan to make a profit, but their plan lacked the means by which that profit was to be made.
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