we have always been at war with eastasia
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.67 in modern English
59
Scrabble Score
33
Letters
6
Syllables
13
Unique Chars
Meaning
phrase
Used to highlight a situation in which circumstances have changed, yet this change has gone unacknowledged or is being denied.
Humorous
Example Sentences
- "Now it truly is as if it never existed in this repository! And we've always been at war with Eastasia."
- "The more conversational, many-to-many nature of the medium also acts as a counterweight to older-style broadcast politics, where rulers could more easily get away with assurances that, "We've always been at war with Eastasia"."
- ""The President never downplayed the virus," according to press secretary Kayleigh McEnany. We have always been at war with Eastasia."
Etymology
From the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) by George Orwell, in which the world is divided into the superpowers of Eastasia, Eurasia and Oceania. Oceania is in a state of perpetual war with one of the other powers but its alliance keeps shifting, and the government never acknowledges that its current adversary is its former ally and vice versa.