dead donkey
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[সম্পাদনা]এই কথাটি থেকে এসেছে যে কেউ কখনও মৃত গাধা দেখেনি, অর্থাৎ এটি একটি দুর্লভ ঘটনা। পরবর্তীতে এটি ধীর সংবাদের দিন সংক্রান্ত ঘটনার একটি প্রচলিত উদাহরণে পরিণত হয়, যা ব্রিটিশ sitcom Drop the Dead Donkey-এর শিরোনাম দ্বারা জনপ্রিয় হয়।
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[সম্পাদনা]dead donkey (plural dead donkeys)
- একটি দুর্লভতা।
- 1833, The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal:
- A dead bore is as rare a phenomenon as a dead donkey or a dead attorney.
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- 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, chapter LII, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC, page 544:
- “No,” rejoined Sam, triumphantly. “Nor never vill; and there's another thing that no man never see, and that’s a dead donkey—no man never see a dead donkey, ’cept the gen’l’m’n in the black silk smalls as know’d the young ’ooman as kept a goat; and that wos a French donkey, so wery likely he warn’t vun o’ the reg’lar breed.”
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- 1843, John Claudius Loudon, The Gardener's Magazine:
- I say, if they only get proper treatment, it will be no more likely to see a dead heath than it would be to see a dead donkey.
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- 1953, The Socialist Leader:
- From Nigeria, news that the Sultan of Sokoto, head of Fulani Moslems in West Africa, has denounced Mau Mau. African denunciations of Mau Mau have become rarer than dead donkeys.
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- 1969, Electrical Times, volume 156, page 12:
- MESSRS DIXON AND ATKINSON state that broken neutrals are seen as often as a dead donkey.
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- 2010, Allan Massie, A Question of Loyalties:
- Jacques, that's our gardener, says nobody has ever seen a dead donkey.
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- (journalism) একটি সংবাদ উপাদান যার প্রকৃতপক্ষে কোনো গুরুত্ব নেই, সাধারণত হাস্যকর বা আবেগময় প্রকৃতির, যা সংবাদ বুলেটিনের শেষে বা পত্রিকাতে ফিলার হিসেবে রাখা হয়। যদি আরও গুরুত্বপূর্ণ কোনো সংবাদ উপস্থাপন করতে হয়, তবে একটি dead donkey প্রায়ই প্রোগ্রাম বা প্রকাশনা থেকে সরিয়ে ফেলা হয়।
- 1994, New Scientist, volume 141, numbers 1907–1912, page 3:
- Swap these ages around to produce a 59-year-old father and a 45-year-old mother and what was previously a hot news story becomes a dead donkey.
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- 1999, Council of Europe. Parliamentary Assembly, Official Report of Debates, volume 2, page 525:
- Those are the people who should have some protection from media excesses, even if only to gain some form of compensation for the damage sustained once the media has left and they, like the proverbial dead donkey, are dropped, their lives in tatters, because they were used by the media in an unsavoury ciruclation or viewing war.
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- 2003, Peter Narváez, Of corpse: death and humor in folklore and popular culture, page 25:
- When disaster strikes, the dead donkey does not get dropped, but merely occurs later on the television news.
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- এমন কিছু যা অকেজো এবং যার পেছনে সময় বা পরিশ্রম ব্যয় করা বৃথা।
- 1917, Robert William Seton-Watson, The New Europe: A Weekly Review of Foreign Politics:
- What, if you like, could be more sensational than the fact that the ancient island of Cythera, " sacred," as Lemrière says, "to the Goddess Venus, who rose, as some suppose, from the sea, near its coasts," has been quite happily governed for three months by an assembly of islanders under the presidency of a local lawyer ? But the papers prefer to go on flogging the same old dead donkeys.
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- 1999, Charles à Court Repington, A. J. Anthony Morris, The Letters of Lieutenant-Colonel Charles À Court Repington:
- Happily he cannot effect this object for Haldane has a backbone and will go straight on regardless of all the old boys and professors who beat your "dead donkeys of pedantic professionalism".
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- 2019, Queenie Tarquin Saunders aka Simon Richard Lee, The Tender Years, page 92:
- Overall then, with Vista, Megabollox were 'flogging a dead donkey' by introducing this cosmetic, resource-flogging successor to Windows XP falsely as an advance.
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