cheese-eating surrender monkey
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.68 in modern English
43
Scrabble Score
27
Letters
8
Syllables
16
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Bonjour, you cheese-eating surrender monkeys!"
- "In turn, we British may feel disillusioned with what's left of the special relationship, increasingly out of sympathy with American attitudes, and rather more in sympathy with the cheese-eating surrender monkeys and their friends across the Channel."
- "IN PRAISE OF CHEESE-EATING SURRENDER MONKEYS OR WASHINGTON FUNDAMENTALISTS VS PARISIAN MONKEYS"
- "It's all about the “French Paradox,” that much-publicized puzzle of how French people eat all that fatty food and drink tons of wine, yet still manage to be svelte and sophisticated, not to mention cheese-eating surrender monkeys."
- "Maybe it's their French blood. If it is, we sure don't need cheese-eating surrender monkeys in the Kaw River Valley!"
- "We've lived with terrorism for years, and we know you can lick it, especially if we don't overreact and make unnecessary sacrifices of liberty in the name of security - for freedom is its own best defence. Between cheese-eating surrender monkeys and fire-eating war junkies, we look for a middle way."
Etymology
Coined by American television writer and producer Ken Keeler in 1995, for the television series The Simpsons. Derived from the stereotype of the French being quick to surrender and the fact that cheese is a delicacy in France.