NOUN
- any elderly pompous reactionary ultranationalistic person (after the cartoon character created by Sir David Low)
- a pompous reactionary cartoon character created by Sir David Low
How To Use Colonel Blimp In A Sentence
- It's depressingly like the cartoon of a Colonel Blimp character sitting in an armchair beneath the huge head of a white rhino, explaining that he ‘thought he'd better bag one fast in case this conservation business doesn't work out.’
- Moreover Drummond isn't your average Colonel Blimp reactionary; yes, he deplores the fixation with populist culture but he is essentially a modernist at heart.
- Those who read Mr Cooper's article will discover that he is anything but a Colonel Blimp and that he does not have much in common with historical liberal imperialism either.
- But I guess she's just one of those "cheerleaders" or "Colonel Blimps" Taylor dismisses so disdainfully. Scott Taylor: FAIL
- As it is, the News Chronicle version of Fascism as a kind of homicidal mania peculiar to Colonel Blimps bombinating in the economic void has been established more firmly than ever. Spilling the Spanish Beans
- It is sad to find the editor of one of the few outlets in favour of radical change adopting the attitude, and language, of a Colonel Blimp.
- He was portrayed as a latter-day Colonel Blimp with a wonderfully bilious turn of phrase.
- With a title like Colonel Blimp, it's assumed the film is concerned solely with matters of men and war, but it's frequently Kerr's performances that inflect it with layers of emotion and romance. Penelope Andrew: Powell/Pressburger 1943 Classic Conjures Deborah Kerr's Early Artistry and Winston Churchill's Wrath
- A Profile of The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, the all-male talking heads mention her name twice with no evaluation whatsoever of her performance. Penelope Andrew: Powell/Pressburger 1943 Classic Conjures Deborah Kerr's Early Artistry and Winston Churchill's Wrath