English Dictionary

Thatcher's children

名詞

複数形 複数形のみ

People who grew up or were born in the United Kingdom during the premiership of Margaret Thatcher (1979–1990) and who adopted the ideology of Thatcherism.

日本語の意味

マーガレット・サッチャー政権（1979～1990年）時代にイギリスで生まれ育ち、サッチャリズムの理念を受け入れた人々、またはその世代を指す。

Thatcher's children often credited the privatizations and deregulations of the 1980s with shaping their belief in individual responsibility and free markets.

サッチャー政権期（1979〜1990年）にイギリスで生まれ育ち、サッチャー主義を受け入れた人々は、1980年代の民営化や規制緩和が個人の責任感と自由市場への信念を形作ったとしばしば語った。

意味（1）

People who grew up or were born in the United Kingdom during the premiership of Margaret Thatcher (1979–1990) and who adopted the ideology of Thatcherism.

She has not begun to stem the tide of British ugliness—the yobbish teenagers shivering in their torn gear; the shoddy streets littered with fast-food packaging; the drunks urinating on London's tube platforms; the drug culture. It is facile to call those concerned “Thatcher's children”: she is not responsible for their actions.

意味（2）

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see Thatcher, children.

Margaret Thatcher is a former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Denis Thatcher is her husband, and Mark Thatcher and Carol Thatcher are Thatcher's children.