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pooh-bah

/poo -bah/US // ˈpu ˌbɑ //UK // (ˈpuːˈbɑː) //

呸呸呸,咅阝,呸,呸呸呸呸

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who holds several positions, especially ones that give him or her bureaucratic importance.
    • : a leader, authority, or other important person: one of the pooh bahs of the record industry.
    • : a pompous, self-important person.

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Examples

  • Chernon Bah, co-founder of A World at School, was alarmed by what she witnessed recently in Sierra Leone.

  • Sharp always wanted to be an actor: his first role, aged 7, was as Piglet in Winnie-The-Pooh.

  • At a conference in London the following week, a senior retired U.S. Air Force commander pooh-poohed counterstealth efforts.

  • When his fellow panelists pushed back, he proceeded to pooh-pooh all those “experts” who have said otherwise.

  • The pope may pooh-pooh the decision to remain childless, but the world needs more people who choose pets over kids.

  • Father generally pooh-poohs the notion of there being any further trouble with Germany.

  • Pooh, they are only bogys invented by priests in days of darkness, in order to obtain power.

  • Finding that the wire fence would not yield she said "Bah-wah" and started in another direction.

  • He can't be after any mischief; 'tis not in the boy; when—when he is all but—Pooh!

  • She is as rotten and ricketty as an old tub; and very little—Bah!