buggy whip English

Meaning buggy whip meaning

What does buggy whip mean?

buggy whip

— noun a horsewhip once used by a driver of a buggy since buggies have been replaced by cars the buggy whip has become a symbol for anything that is hopelessly outmoded

Examples buggy whip examples

How do I use buggy whip in a sentence?

Simple sentences

I wish I had the whip hand.

While clearly outside of his element at, say, a Western-style karaoke bar, he could easily whip out a Brazilian folk song in seven-eight meter on his berimbau.

They made a whip out of cords.

Whip the egg-whites until they are stiff.

In Singapore, one way to punish criminals is to whip them.

Whip him until he confesses.

News and current affairs

The ECB simply cannot whip the European Union into shape.

If the whip is cracked in Tegucigalpa today, workers in Charlotte will feel it tomorrow.

Clearly, Europe's answer to globalization is that certain spheres of social life-say, healthcare, education, the environment, or culture-cannot be left to the whip of the market.

The war party appears to be trying to whip up American public opinion in support of a wider conflict.

Putin's foreign policy also is evidently intended to whip up populist chauvinism.

Planned economies were never able to flourish because uncertainty about the future is just too high, something that is best left to the speculators, with the potential of reward if they are right and the disciplining whip of the market if they are wrong.

Right-wing populist parties in Europe regularly whip up popular sentiment against Muslim minorities by condemning their treatment of women.

Presumably, Putin hopes to whip up nationalist sentiment to strengthen his weakened hold on power at home.

Europe today does not need inspirational leaders who can whip up a populist frenzy.