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SACRED COW

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• SACRED COW (noun)
The noun SACRED COW has 1 sense:

1. a person unreasonably held to be immune to criticism

Familiarity information: SACRED COW used as a noun is very rare.

• SACRED COW (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A person unreasonably held to be immune to criticism

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("sacred cow" is a kind of...):

important person; influential person; personage (a person whose actions and opinions strongly influence the course of events)

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(English proverb)
"With all things and in all things, we are relatives."
(Native American proverb, Sioux)
"The wound of words is worse than the wound of swords."
(Arabic proverb)
"Don't sell the fur before shooting the bear."
(Danish proverb)

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