Goblin mode is the Oxford term of 2022 but a ‘frightful hobgoblin’ is still stalking Europe
“goblin mode”, is a slang term describing “unapologetically self-indulgent, lazy, slovenly, or greedy” behaviour. It has been voted Oxford term of the year 2022.
Goblin or Hobgoblin is not a phrase that says anything positive but it can depend from which perspective you are viewing it from
Clearly horse loving Tory Chair Nadhim Zahawi thinks a goblin is holding sway in Europe in the form of Putin. Putin though is much more a Tsar than a General Secretary. The hobgoblin ‘stalking’ Europe are workers taking action on the cost of living crisis
The opening line of the Communist Manifesto talks of not a ‘spectre’ haunting Europe but as the original English translation by Helen Macfarlane in the Chartist Red Republican paper in November 1850 had it, a ‘frightful hobgoblin’ stalks Europe.
BBC Report
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