English Dictionary

public enemy number one

名詞

アメリカ英語 古風 不可算名詞 広義 慣用表現

(US, law enforcement, dated) A person who ranks highest on the federal government's prioritized list of wanted criminal fugitives.

日本語の意味

連邦政府の指名手配リストで最も優先される対象となっている犯罪者。 / 当局にとって最重要な犯罪者と位置付けられる人物。

After months on the run, the FBI finally captured the suspect who had been labeled public enemy number one.

数ヶ月にわたる逃亡の末、FBIは連邦政府が最も捜索していた最重要指名手配者の容疑者をついに逮捕した。

意味（1）

(US, law enforcement, dated) A person who ranks highest on the federal government's prioritized list of wanted criminal fugitives.

John Dillinger, America's Public Enemy No. 1 and the most notorious criminal of recent times, was shot and killed at 10:40 o'clock tonight by Federal agents.

意味（2）

(idiomatic, by extension) A person, organization, or other object considered to be particularly menacing, harmful, or loathsome.

The fact is that Reaganomics slowed down the breakneck economy and succeeded in defeating public enemy number one, runaway inflation.