English Dictionary

coat-trailing

名詞

イギリス英語 可算名詞 不可算名詞

(UK) A disingenuous act or arrangement intended to provoke a desired response.

日本語の意味

相手から望む反応を引き出すために、意図的かつ不誠実に仕組まれた行為や策 / 目的達成のために見せかけの手段として採用される、不誠実な操作または取り計らい

The politician's coat-trailing during the interview was designed to make his opponent look unreasonable.

その政治家のインタビューでのやらせは、対立候補を不合理に見せることを目的としていた。

意味（1）

(UK) A disingenuous act or arrangement intended to provoke a desired response.

The Peshawar agent will often be an ambitious man in a hurry, in which case he will push the forward policy, and amongst future Viceroys Aucklands, Lyttons, Lansdownes, and Elgins will be more frequent than Lawrences and Curzons, and then we shall have complications, coat-trailings, warlike movements, perhaps even wars, and they mean, as was the case through the 'nineties, extravagance trans-Indus, and crippling retrenchments or tax enhancements cis-Indus.

coat-trailings （ plural ）