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bleeding deacon
noun
a person with an over-inflated sense of self-importance to an organisation US
Usually used in the context of self-help recovery groups such as Alcoholics Anonymous.- It will be what I call the “tradition lawyers.” They find it easier to live with black and white than they do with gray. These “bleeding deacons”–these fundamentalists–are afraid of and fight any change. — New York Times, p. 40 (Section 6), 21 February 1988
- People who behave in this manner in the A.A. program–those who abandon self in the effort to help others–are called “bleeding deacons.“ — Terence T. Gorski, Understanding the Twelve Steps, p. 123, 1989
- He was just one very dry and very angry alcoholic–often called a “bleeding deacon” (as contrasted to an “elder statesman”) in earlier A.A. parlance. — Dick B., That Amazing Grace, p. 109, 1996
- Most will do the right thing and accept discussion of drugs. Those that don’t will be populated mostly by “bleeding deacons” masquerading as elder statesmen, as members vote with their feet. (Letter to the editor). — Village Voice, p. 42, 5 June 2001
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