knit yoghurtとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

knit yoghurt (三人称単数 現在形 knits yoghurt, 現在分詞 knitting yoghurt, 過去形および過去分詞形 knitted yoghurt)

1. (humorous, sometimes derogatory) To behave in a left-wing or hippie fashion; an imagined activity among left-wing and hippie groups.
   • 2004, William Venator, Vestiges of Freedom, WritersPrintShop →ISBN, page 69

     Keep off hugging organic trees while doing GM-free yoga and knitting yoghurt, and I'll be happy.

   • 2005, Stephen Price, Monkey Man, New Island Books

     Certainly, there's no shortage of tree-huggers in magical, mystical Ireland, but mostly they're foreign nationals who stay over West, behaving themselves, doing up cottages, knitting yoghurt and stuff.

   • 2012, Shirley Wells, Dying Art, Harlequin →ISBN, page 146

     He didn't look as if he knitted yoghurt for one thing. He looked too sensible and respectable to have anything in common with Dylan's dope-smoking mother.

   • 2013, Joanna Nadin, The Life of Riley, Oxford University Press - Children →ISBN

     Mum is going to join the Greens instead. Dad says at least they are all so busy knitting yoghurt they do not have time for sexual scandal.

派生語

• yoghurt-knitting
• yoghurt-knitter

参考

• crunchy granola
• granola-head