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CHICKEN HAWK [1 record]
Record 1 - internal organization data 2012-09-06
Record 1, English
Record 1, Subject field(s)
- Translation (General)
Record 1, Main entry term, English
- chicken hawk
1, record 1, English, chicken%20hawk
correct
Record 1, Abbreviations, English
Record 1, Synonyms, English
- chickenhawk 2, record 1, English, chickenhawk
correct
- chicken-hawk 1, record 1, English, chicken%2Dhawk
correct
- war wimp 1, record 1, English, war%20wimp
Record 1, Textual support, English
Record number: 1, Textual support number: 1 DEF
A public person who advocates or fervently supports military solutions to political problems and who has personally declined to take advantage of a significant opportunity to serve in uniform during wartime. 2, record 1, English, - chicken%20hawk
Record number: 1, Textual support number: 1 CONT
... it looks like the "chicken-hawks" are at it again. These people who were too chicken to go to war (or even serve in the military) become middle-aged hawks looking for an opportunity to send others to kill and be killed. 1, record 1, English, - chicken%20hawk
Record number: 1, Textual support number: 2 CONT
In England during World War I, as thousands were dying pointlessly in the trenches, pretty girls went around handing white feathers -- a symbol of cowardice -- to men who weren't in uniform. The one group currently being handed white feathers who may deserve them are the so-called "war wimps" or "chicken hawks" -- prominent Americans helping to spread war fever today who avoided service during Vietnam. 1, record 1, English, - chicken%20hawk
Record number: 1, Textual support number: 3 CONT
The general trump-it-all insult that the antiwar crowd aims at the pro-war crowd these days is a neat little portmanteau term that manages to impute, at once, cowardice, ignorance, selfishness, bloodlust (as long as the blood spills from others' veins) and hypocrisy: "chicken hawk. 3, record 1, English, - chicken%20hawk
Record 1, French
Record 1, Domaine(s)
- Traduction (Généralités)
Record 1, Main entry term, French
- faucon de salon
1, record 1, French, faucon%20de%20salon
proposal, masculine noun
Record 1, Abbreviations, French
Record 1, Synonyms, French
Record 1, Textual support, French
Record 1, Spanish
Record 1, Textual support, Spanish
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