sleepmarchとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

sleepmarch (third-person singular simple present sleepmarches, present participle sleepmarching, simple past and past participle sleepmarched) Not to be confused with sleepwalk.

1. (intransitive) To sleep while marching, having fallen asleep while marching.
2. (intransitive, figurative) To perform actions without being aware of them, especially with militaristic or at least goal-oriented overtones.

   1986 February, Vic Sadot, Broadside: The National Topic Song Magazine, number 170, Broadside, LTD.:

   As long as the young are willing to accept the prevailing simple-minded mythology about America, Corporate Empire will remain safe and sound asleep even as we go sleepmarching off to war in the Middle East to secure "our" oil.

   2015, Dimitri Van den Meerssche, “Calling Themis”, in The European Journal of International Law (EJIL)‎, volume 26, number 1, page 310:

   Above the shivering tenements of terror—
   rough blankets over legions sleepmarching
   into the night of time,
   like clacking teeth in the mouth of the universe,

   2019, “When the lion lies down with the lamb”‎performed by Global Village Bard:

   There’s lots of upheaval, confusion and lies:
   once again, we’re sleepmarching to war.