| 单词 |
jobsworth |
| 释义 |
jobsworth, n. Brit. colloq. (depreciative).
Brit. |ˈdʒɒbzwəːθ|, |ˈdʒɒbzwəθ|, U.S. |ˈdʒɑbzˌwərθ|
Forms: 19– job's worth, 19– jobsworth
[‹ job's worth in to be more than one's job's worth at job n.2 Phrases 13.
Popularized by the BBC consumer affairs television series That's Life (1973–94): see quot. 1982.]
A person in authority (esp. a minor official) who insists on adhering to rules and regulations or bureaucratic procedures even at the expense of common sense.
1970Melody Maker 12 Sept. 29/4 If you are a taxi-driver, jobsworth or policeman, you will now be able to understand hippie lingo. 1982Times 2 Oct. 19/1 That's Life. Consumer programme which includes the first contenders for the Jobsworth Award, given to the person who enforces the most stupid rule. 1987Punch 20 May 47 Now we all know park-keepers—‘jobsworths’ to the man. (‘It's more than my job's worth to let you in here/play ball/walk on the grass/film my ducks.’). 1996D. Brimson & E. Brimson Everywhere we Go xvii. 228 More efficient and helpful (happy) stewards and policemen would be a vast improvement on the jobsworths we currently find ourselves saddled with. 2002Wanderlust Feb.–Mar. 65/1 Officials—jobsworths the lot of 'em, from four-forms-for-one-train-ticket bureaucrats to power-crazed border police. |
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