bushlipsとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Bush +‎ lips, alludes to pledge "Read my lips: no new taxes" by then-U.S. President George H. W. Bush.^[1][2]

名詞

bushlips pl (複数形 only)

1. (politics, frequently capitalized, dated) insincere political rhetoric^[1][2][3][4]
   • 1990 March 24, Taylor, Paul, “Democratic Leaders Talk Tough on Taxes;President's Promise Not to Impose New Levies Is 'Pure Bushlips,' Sen. Bentsen Declares”, in The Washington Post‎^[2], ISSN 0190-8286, page A6:

     "As one of our colleagues recently put it, this Republican pledge of no new taxes is pure Bushlips," Senate Finance Committee Chairman Lloyd Bentsen (Tex.), said in the toughest language he has used to attack the administration's fiscal policy. "It's Bushlips when the president says 'No new taxes' and sends a budget requiring the Finance Committee to raise $20 billion in new revenues: $15 billion in taxes and $5 billion in user fees."

   • 1990 September 18, Associated Press, quoting Booth Gardner, “Gardner Hoping For No New Taxes”, in The Spokesman-Review‎^[3], page B1:

     I'm trying to avoid doing the 'Bushlips' stuff (about blocking tax increases). By saying it's not part of our thinking and planning, I'm obviously not saying it won't occur at all.

   • 1999 May 20, Bucky, “Re: Ballot box whores (Was:Take away all guns NOW)”, in alt.current-events.clinton, Usenet‎^[4], message-ID <7i1s5g$s8g$1@garnet.mint.net>:

     Bushlips!

   • 2002 March 4, The Angry Liberal, “Social Security Reform, Part I: Bush is Lost in Des Moines”, in BuzzFlash.com‎^[5]:

     Anything short of that is just a lot of Bushlips.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:bushlips.

参考

• bullshit
• Appendix:American Dialect Society words of the year

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