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Definition of Grub Street in English: Grub Streetnoun Used in reference to a world or class of impoverished journalists and writers. 格拉布街(指穷愁潦倒的报人和作家圈);潦倒文人 Example sentencesExamples - Are they not trying to get the sales of the Grub Street merchants without their street-vulgarity - the one jumped-up, the other dumbed-down?
- Walpole's hegemony inevitably drew the full fire of Grub Street on his personal position.
- It could have been eighteenth-century Grub Street.
- All right-thinking lesbians will complain at the close-mindedness shown by the Grub Street sisterhood.
- Taking a swipe at Grub Street productions of the time, the ‘mission-statement’ language reads like a parody of the real Foundling Hospital's raison d'être.
- Clearly, not one to mince his titles, this neologism was spotlit by the hacks of Grub Street as the most secretive of sins, the product of a furtive imagination within an autarkic existence.
- He assented to being a ‘man of letters’ but always made sure to keep ‘one foot in Grub Street.’
- With the passive agreement of the American press, she managed to escape the attention of the American paparazzi and the US equivalent of Grub Street hacks.
- It shields her from the intellectual compromises monetary need imposes on the writer, from the necessity of fawning before editors or potential patrons, from becoming a harried Grub Street hack.
- He shows how Venice in the sixteenth century had its own Grub Street, like London in the seventeenth and Paris in the eighteenth century.
- In the Grub Street of the twenty-first century, books are traded on less and less material, and almost never on complete manuscripts.
- Meanwhile, literary hacks and Grub Street writers produced popular pot boilers for the masses.
- But Grub Street, where Gray is concerned, is in shouting distance of Arcadia.
- To be sure, there's a lot of cobbling going on in the cyber Grub Street but that's the price we pay for mass production.
- His line was that there are people living like parasites in Grub Street while other clean-limbed, honourable fellows are trying to improve the world.
- This is also an envy free zone because I am so far removed from Grub Street with its horrible toxins.
- Many of these writers worked in the shadowy borderland between Academia, Bohemia, and Grub Street.
- No longer will Grub Street scribblers have to stare wild-eyed out the window not knowing where the next sentence is coming from.
- It could be that Stanley was being paid by the word - a not uncommon arrangement on Grub Street, where, lo these many years, he has made his residence.
- Also, and perhaps most importantly, she posed no threat to the denizens of Grub Street.
OriginThe name of a street (later Milton Street) in Moorgate, London, inhabited by such authors in the 17th century. Definition of Grub Street in US English: Grub Streetnounˈɡrəb ˌstrētˈɡrəb ˌstrit Used in reference to a world or class of impoverished journalists and writers. 格拉布街(指穷愁潦倒的报人和作家圈);潦倒文人 Example sentencesExamples - This is also an envy free zone because I am so far removed from Grub Street with its horrible toxins.
- He shows how Venice in the sixteenth century had its own Grub Street, like London in the seventeenth and Paris in the eighteenth century.
- In the Grub Street of the twenty-first century, books are traded on less and less material, and almost never on complete manuscripts.
- Clearly, not one to mince his titles, this neologism was spotlit by the hacks of Grub Street as the most secretive of sins, the product of a furtive imagination within an autarkic existence.
- Many of these writers worked in the shadowy borderland between Academia, Bohemia, and Grub Street.
- But Grub Street, where Gray is concerned, is in shouting distance of Arcadia.
- With the passive agreement of the American press, she managed to escape the attention of the American paparazzi and the US equivalent of Grub Street hacks.
- His line was that there are people living like parasites in Grub Street while other clean-limbed, honourable fellows are trying to improve the world.
- Walpole's hegemony inevitably drew the full fire of Grub Street on his personal position.
- Are they not trying to get the sales of the Grub Street merchants without their street-vulgarity - the one jumped-up, the other dumbed-down?
- No longer will Grub Street scribblers have to stare wild-eyed out the window not knowing where the next sentence is coming from.
- To be sure, there's a lot of cobbling going on in the cyber Grub Street but that's the price we pay for mass production.
- Also, and perhaps most importantly, she posed no threat to the denizens of Grub Street.
- He assented to being a ‘man of letters’ but always made sure to keep ‘one foot in Grub Street.’
- Meanwhile, literary hacks and Grub Street writers produced popular pot boilers for the masses.
- It shields her from the intellectual compromises monetary need imposes on the writer, from the necessity of fawning before editors or potential patrons, from becoming a harried Grub Street hack.
- All right-thinking lesbians will complain at the close-mindedness shown by the Grub Street sisterhood.
- It could have been eighteenth-century Grub Street.
- It could be that Stanley was being paid by the word - a not uncommon arrangement on Grub Street, where, lo these many years, he has made his residence.
- Taking a swipe at Grub Street productions of the time, the ‘mission-statement’ language reads like a parody of the real Foundling Hospital's raison d'être.
OriginThe name of a street (later Milton Street) in Moorgate, London, inhabited by such authors in the 17th century. |