Aunt Sallyとは

意味・読み方・使い方

固有名詞

Aunt Sally

1. A traditional game in which balls are thrown to break the pipe in the mouth of a figurine resembling an old woman. [from 19th c.]
   • 1913, DH Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 1

     Mrs. Morel did not like the wakes. There were two sets of horses, one going by steam, one pulled round by a pony; three organs were grinding, and there came odd cracks of pistol-shots, fearful screeching of the cocoanut man's rattle, shouts of the Aunt Sally man, screeches from the peep-show lady.

2. (chiefly Britain) A figure drawing criticism or ridicule, especially when prejudiced or unwarranted. [from 19th c.]
   • 1999, JM Coetzee, Disgrace, Vintage 2000, p. 95:

     He is helpless, an Aunt Sally, a figure from a cartoon, a missionary in cassock and topi waiting with clasped hands and upcast eyes while the savages jaw away in their own lingo preparatory to plunging him into their boiling cauldron.

   • 2008, The Economist, Manmohan Singh's burning ambition

     IN FOUR years as India's prime minister, Manmohan Singh has come to resemble a bearded and turbaned Aunt Sally.

   • 2013, Irish Examiner Stakes couldn't be higher

     The finance minister, a true Aunt Sally figure, was dispatched to Moscow in search of backing.