hi community,
What's idiom in English to express, the following idea:
"The person who is strictly protesting, opposing to some kind of issue or idea, has been disregarded at utmost by the community"
Your helps will be appreciated,
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hi community,
What's idiom in English to express, the following idea:
"The person who is strictly protesting, opposing to some kind of issue or idea, has been disregarded at utmost by the community"
Your helps will be appreciated,
How about a voice in the wilderness?
thanks for helping, but that doesn't involve any insulting to the opposing person,
he/she should be treated with utmost disregard and humuliation, neglecting the fact, that whteher his/her idea is useful or not.
Regards,
You seem to be assuming that English has a word for this. It may have - I can't think of one - but it may not.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lingustic
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Originally Posted by Lingustic
I'd suggest the word crackpot
People such at the OP described are not necessarily crackpots, people with crazy ideas.
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Originally Posted by 5jj
Perhaps crank is better. If it's an insulting word or term for someone with strong opinions in disagreement with everyone else, then it's going to have a connotation of craziness. Both crank and crackpot suggest that it's someone with strong ideas, as opposed to simply being mad.
I think words borrowed from religious writings might be apt: heretic, zealot, Judas etc.
Other words that I can think of which might help to form the specific idiom that you are looking for include: black sheep, fanatic, radical.
So, this heretic would be putting the cat among pigeons and rocking the boat with his radical ideas.
"putting the cat among [the] pigeons" must be BrE. I've never heard this idiom before.