mutual admiration society en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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Meanings
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(derogatory, idiomatic) A group of two or more people, in a workplace or other social environment, who routinely express considerable esteem and support for one another, sometimes to the point of exaggeration or pretense.
Joe DiMaggio and Willie Mays had a mutual admiration society and the Clipper was happy to put his respect into writing.
2007 July 17, Bill Gallo, “Signs of DiMaggio's greatness”, in New York Daily News:If you don't want a mutual admiration society, which dies as soon as you've all discovered each other's faults, you must nobble the Press.
1919, Virginia Woolf, chapter 26, in Night and Day:Vandeloup smiled at this, and came to the conclusion that the Wopples family was a mutual admiration society.
1889, Fergus Hume, chapter 13, in Madame Midas:Those two are incessantly flattering one another. They've formed an utterly nauseating mutual admiration society!
And the said members did accordingly resolve themselves into a little "mutual admiration society" for the entertainment and benefit of their visitors.
1824, The Westminster Review, London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, page 400:The note is from a special friend of yours; indeed I think you form a little mutual-admiration society.
1872, Edward Payson Roe, chapter 32, in Barriers Burned Away:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| mutual admiration societies | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Synonyms
circle jerk (environment which validates a limited set of ideas and feelings) · echo chamber (environment which validates a limited set of ideas and feelings) · filter bubble (environment which validates a limited set of ideas and feelings) · hugbox (environment which validates a limited set of ideas and feelings)
Translations (11)
pl kółko wzajemnej adoracji (group) · pl grupa wzajemnej adoracji (group) · cs partička (group) · de Kreis gegenseitiger Bewunderung (group) · pl klub wzajemnej adoracji (group) · cs kamarádíčkové (group) · pl towarzystwo wzajemnej adoracji (group) · cs my hoši co spolu mluvíme (group) · ru о́бщество взаимного восхищения (group) · sv klubb för inbördes beundran (group) · de Club gegenseitiger Bewunderung (group)