lamppost

Noun

Meaning

a metal post supporting an outdoor lamp (such as a streetlight)

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Examples

Asking a writer what he thinks about criticism is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs. John Osborne

Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist. Dean Koontz

The first step to stringing the boss up from a lamppost is saying the boss is a moron. Ted Rall

A lot of people think right-wingers aren't capable of being amusing at all. Not true. Mussolini looked hilarious swinging from that lamppost. Charlie Brooker

When I landed on the top of a lamppost in the London dusk it was peeing with rain. Jonathan Stroud

Science is a bit like the joke about the drunk who is looking under a lamppost for a key that he has lost on the other side of the street, because that's where the light is. It has no other choice. Noam Chomsky

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