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Перевод: shibboleth

[существительное]
шибболет [библ.] ; тайный пароль; устаревшее поверье

Тезаурус:

1. Sharp fulminated against any notion of equality of opportunity while the financial disparities between authorities remained, but his writing on the subject leads one to suspect that he viewed it as a "shibboleth" in more ways than financial ones.
2. But as a political shibboleth it was raised to all-powerful heights and was used as a battering-ram to silence any suggestion by anybody that one might ever spend more on anything even if the aim of spending more immediately was to spend less later.
3. Colonel Goreng was moving away from the details of the operation to talk about the Western concept of "human rights", to mock it, to say what a ridiculous shibboleth it was when it stopped you defending the rights of those who weren't criminals, when Mrs Goreng knocked on the door.
4. This, however, is surely not a matter for grave concern (except of course to ardent devotees) since the precise metaphysical status of the magic shibboleth is of much less interest than the insights which it has inspired.
5. Apparently, to wear a hat in the cafeteria was a student shibboleth.
6. Or, better still, maybe we should question the present shibboleth that a bath or a shower a day is necessary for hygiene.
7. An end-of-century shibboleth
8. The shibboleth of the DM3 standard should not stand in the way of entry at a realistic level, which would probably be at around DM2.80 to the pound.
9. His first collection of verse, Shibboleth, is published by Oxford (5.95).
10. The Brundtland Commission may have made sustainable development the end-of-century watchword, defining it as "development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs", but even Tolba has wondered aloud whether it amounts to much more than a shibboleth.
11. For the first time companies seem willing to bend a bit, maybe even give up a cherished shibboleth or two.
12. On the other hand, for right-wing pressure groups the word had become a shibboleth: if only "grammar" was taught in a formal manner, standards in the writing of English would improve dramatically.
13. Demands to abandon an existing shibboleth in order to replace it with an even older one.