What do they call French toast in France? (And other similar questions)
Read moreIn English, many things are named after a particular country – but have you ever wondered what those things are called in those countries?
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abanderado masculineabanderada feminineportaestandarte masculineadalid masculineabanderado masculineabanderada feminine- In many ways Dean is an unlikely standard-bearer for gay rights.
- Instead, time after time, people who had begun as standard-bearers of the left ended up as right wingers.
- When Ali refused the draft, there was no genuinely mass anti-war movement in the country; not long after, he would become one of the standard-bearers of that movement.
- It was clear that the cop saw him as a natural enemy and a standard-bearer of the drug culture.
- Perhaps unexpectedly, working-class and rural girls are the standard-bearers of the future campaign for genuine sharing of household responsibilities.
- The original standard-bearers of the U.S. gay rights movement get their due in a new documentary
- He is, warts and all, our standard-bearer and founder of our Republic.
- Prince Charles, who stays at Balmoral every summer, has always been the royal standard-bearer on green issues.
- Even beer companies, long the standard-bearers of traditional male attitudes, have noticed something different in the brew.
- It is the responsibility of judges to be moral standard-bearers.
Further reading
12 ways to say goodbye in other languages
Find out moreEnglish has borrowed many of the following foreign expressions of parting, so you’ve probably encountered some of these ways to say goodbye in other languages.
55 words ending in ‘ster’ you didn’t know you needed to know
Find out moreMany words formed by the addition of the suffix –ster are now obsolete - which ones are due a resurgence?
