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chinless wonder
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The term is derived from the characteristic recessive chin of some aristocrats, popularly thought to be caused by inbreeding and associated with limited intelligence,[1] and from the idea of a robust chin being an indication of masculinity. The use of 'wonder' is ironic.
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chinless wonder (複数形 chinless wonders)
- (Britain, derogatory) An ineffectual upper-class man, typically dim-witted and of a weak or indecisive character, frequently one who gained his position through nepotism or social connections.
- 1948, (Please provide the book title または journal name), volume 31, page 18:
- This was probably the most insufferable social event of a very dull season. The bride blushingly gave her age as forty-two, but the old battle-axe could have been an eye-witness to the San Francisco Fire. At long last, little Dagmar's folks have got her married off to Morty, the chinless wonder. He couldn't hold down a job as grocery clerk, and will be manager of father-in-law's wholesale grocery firm.
- 1979, The Spectator, volume 243, number 1, page 25:
- [Actor] John Harding personified the idle spirit of the times as a tennis-possessed chinless wonder.
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- ^ "chinless", Bloomsbury Dictionary of Idioms, 2009
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