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固有名詞

Johnny Foreigner

1. (UK, informal, derogatory, satirical) Foreigners collectively; people who are not British, as expressed by an individual with an out-dated, nationalistic or imperialistic perspective.
   • 1983, Richard Ingrams, John Wells, Private Eye - Issues 550-575‎, page 70:

     No wonder Johnny Foreigner lays in supplies of the stale bread rolls whenever he appears over the horizon.

   • 1984 December 3, John Torode, “Why must training for tomorrow be a dead turn-off?”, in The Guardian, page 18:

     Mr. King's message was that Johnny Foreigner does it better than us. In Germany, in Japan and in the United States, these bottlenecks just do not happen.

   • 1999, James Chapman, Licence to thrill: a cultural history of the James Bond films:

     A time when Johnny Foreigner knew his place. A time when beautiful women from other countries existed primarily to be seduced...

   • 2004, Charles Godfrey-Faussett, Footprint England:

     ...the constant threat of spontaneous outbreaks of singing on Centre Court by pop has-beens and the occasional ungentlemanly antics of Johnny Foreigner...

同意語

• alien, outlander, peregrine; see also Thesaurus:foreigner

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