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词组 government artist
释义 government artist
noun
an unemployed person in receipt of state benefits UK
From a joke, heard in the high unemployment of the 1980s. A popular choice of occupation still, if questionnaires are to be believed.
  • My solution to this problem, which is not only restricted to this area, is to utilise the labour of “Government artists”–dole drawers[.] — Western Daily Press (Bristol), p. 12, 15 February 2003
  • Presumably she’s heard the old one about someone calling him/herself a “Government Artist”? And why? Becaues he/she draws the dole. — Grimsby Evening Telegraph, p. 16, 20 February 2004
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