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From the saying that no one ever sees a dead donkey, hence a rarity. This then became a stock example of a slow-news day story, which was popularized by the title of the British sitcom Drop the Dead Donkey. see Wikipedia entry.
名詞
dead donkey (複数形 dead donkeys)
- A rarity;
- (journalism) A news item of no real significance, usually of whimsical or sentimental nature, placed at the end of a news bulletin or in a newspaper as filler. A dead donkey can often be removed from the programme or publication if a more significant story needs extra time or space.
- 1999, Council of Europe. Parliamentary Assembly, Official Report of Debates - Volume 2, page 525:
- Those are the people who should have some protection from media excesses, even if only to gain some form of compensation for the damage sustained once the media has left and they, like the proverbial dead donkey, are dropped, their lives in tatters, because they were used by the media in an unsavoury ciruclation or viewing war.
- Something useless on which time or effort is wasted.
- 1917, Robert William Seton-Watson, The New Europe: A Weekly Review of Foreign Politics:
- What, if you like, could be more sensational than the fact that the ancient island of Cythera, " sacred," as Lemrière says, "to the Goddess Venus, who rose, as some suppose, from the sea, near its coasts," has been quite happily governed for three months by an assembly of islanders under the presidency of a local lawyer ? But the papers prefer to go on flogging the same old dead donkeys.
- 1999, Charles à Court Repington, A. J. Anthony Morris, The Letters of Lieutenant-Colonel Charles À Court Repington:
- Happily he cannot effect this object for Haldane has a backbone and will go straight on regardless of all the old boys and professors who beat your "dead donkeys of pedantic professionalism".
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