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tall-poppy

Noun

(plural tall poppies)

  1. (Australia, New Zealand) A conspicuously successful person, especially one who attracts envious hostility.
Origin

A metaphor of something conspicuous that should be lopped. Australian from 1902.


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  • red-poppy
  • tall-poppies
  • tall-poppy-syndrome
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  • poppier
  • poppiest
  • Shirley poppy
  • poppylike
  • meconium
  • meconidium

Words near tall-poppy in the dictionary


  • tall-pawns
  • tall-pocosin
  • tall-pocosins
  • tall-poppies
  • tall-poppy
  • tall-poppy-syndrome
  • tall ship
  • tall-ship
  • tall-story
  • tall tale

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