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词汇 clobbering machine
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Definition of clobbering machine in English:

clobbering machine

noun
usually the clobbering machineNZ informal
  • The perceived tendency of bureaucratic and social institutions to stifle individuality and criticize conspicuous achievement.

    the self-employed can perhaps be free of the great clobbering machine
    Example sentencesExamples
    • If the clobbering machine exists it confines its targets to those who overestimate their importance.
    • There's a big clobbering machine that kicks in at about age 10 and suddenly it isn't cool to be different.
    • His appointment as the All Whites coach gives the Kiwi clobbering machine a decent target.
    • It's panic buying because of the inflationary clobbering machine coming.
    • Such is the clobbering machine of the "no conscience but ours" - the collective conscience.
    • To me Mark Twain provides the best reply to the great kiwi clobbering machine that seemed to delight in our earlier problems.
    • The money taboo may have a hand in the well-documented tall poppy syndrome in New Zealand, the great Kiwi clobbering machine.
    • Doctors will be able to experiment, free of the great clobbering machine.
    • New Zealand's clobbering machine does not always help athletes speak their mind.
    • The Kiwi clobbering machine is particularly harsh on fallen heroes.
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