babbitt

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babbitt

lejeerinki, metalliseos, seos, metalli, babbit, laakerimetalli, valkometalli, vuorata, päällystää babbitilla, päällystää laakerimetallilla, päällystää valkometallilla.

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babbitt englanniksi

1. Babbitt metal.

2. puhekieltä To line with Babbitt metal to reduce friction.

3. A person who subscribes complacently to materialistic middle-class ideals

4. 1927 Ira Gershwin, "The Babbit and the Bromide," from the stage musical "Funny Face" (1927). Lyrics collected in: Louis Kronenberger (2008) An Anthology of Light Verse, p234

A Babbitt met a Bromide on the avenue one day. They held a conversation in their own peculiar way.

5. 1930 The Literary digest, Volume 105, Funk and Wagnalls, p21

One speaks of a babbitt habit, a babbitt era. Nothing is more true. America recognized itself in Babbitt, it demurred, but it also admired.

6. 1951 The Georgia review, Volume 5, University of Georgia, p150

If there's one thing I can't stand, it's a Babbitt. Say, there's nothing more wonderful than defying middle-class conventions.

7. 2002 Tamkang review, Volume 33, Tamkang College of Arts and Sciences, p158

... a "babbitt" is a person full of self-confident bluster who is nevertheless a narrowminded philistine and a hypocrite.

8. 2003 William Hyland, George Gershwin: a new biography, Greenwood Publishing Group, p116

Ira relished telling the story that Fred Astaire took him aside and said he knew what a babbitt was, but what was a bromide?

9. 2009 Phillip G. Payne, Dead last: the public memory of Warren G. Hardings scandalous legacy,'' Ohio University Press, p12

In this sense Harding was a Babbitt. Intellectuals and journalists rejected Harding as being as empty as the Sinclair Lewis character.

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