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byword for' von Englisch nach Deutsch
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- The Africa Policy Information Center describes the term, and "tribalism" in particular as a byword for ethnic strife, as invoking negative stereotypes of Africa as a land of primitive and territorial peoples.
- Scrooge's last name has entered the English language as a byword for greed and misanthropy, while his catchphrase, "Bah!
- During the first few decades of South Korea's existence the Hangang River became a byword for pollution, as burgeoning industry and an impoverished populace used it as a convenient spillway for industrial and urban refuse.
- However, even as late as the 1950s Paddington was a byword for overcrowding, poverty and vice.
- That derivation literally means ("allative") "sucking liquid", which may have been a byword for the notion of "suck-giving liquid" The Romano-British form of this Proto-Celtic reconstruction would likely have been *"Adsuglata".
- Catiline's name became a byword for doomed and treasonous rebellion in the years after his death.
- The term "quisling" has become a byword for "collaborator" or "traitor" in several languages and reflects the contempt with which Quisling's conduct has been regarded both at the time and in the present day.
- Consequently, the administration of Transcaspia became a byword for corruption and brutality within Russian Turkestan, as Russian administrators turned their districts into petty fiefdoms and extorted money from the local population.
- The roses of Praeneste were a byword for profusion and beauty.
- The infamously coarse language of London fishmongers made "Billingsgate" a byword for crude or vulgar language.
- , but today codebook is a byword for the complete record of a series of codes, regardless of physical format.
- By 1979, his name was internationally recognised as a byword for mass killings and chaos.
- The group's first album, "No Depression", became a byword for the genre and was widely influential.
- Caiaphas is mentioned throughout the works of William Blake as a byword for a traitor or Pharisee.
- In 1757 "L'Astrée" was sufficiently in the public consciousness, or at any rate "Celadon" had become a byword for amorousness, to be referred to in passing by an Italian guest of Casanova.
- However, the Homeric Question led to his name becoming a byword for harsh and malignant criticism: in antiquity he gained the name "Homeromastix", "scourge of Homer"; in the modern period, Cervantes calls Zoilus a "slanderer" in the preface to "Don Quixote" and there is also a (now disused) proverb, "Every poet has his Zoilus."
- Alaisiagae is derived from the Proto-Celtic "*Ad-lājsījā-agai" meaning (in the illative) 'sending fears,' plausibly a byword for a notion of “dispatching terrors” (q.v. [...] [...]).
- This name appears to be derived from Proto-Celtic *"aidu-mandā". The name literally means "burning stain," which may have been a byword for the notion of ‘sunburn’ (q.v. [...] [...]).
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