sacred cow

Speech parts

1. sacred cow - Noun

2. sacred cow - Phrase

Meaning

a person unreasonably held to be immune to criticism

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

god

Hypernyms

personage important person influential person

Examples

In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule the Pope or the President of the United States, but God forbid you do a joke... about gays. The gay community is the last sacred cow in this society. Sam Kinison

For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull. Ralph Nader

Everyone now has a sacred cow in the tax code. For my money, the most sacred thing of all is our country and its growth, but the sacred cows have turned into a pack of wolves. Ari Fleischer

Such disagreements are long standing and often heated because for many Pauline interpreters we are excavating no mere dinosaur, but, forgive the mixing of metaphors, a sacred cow. Source: Internet

Like any pol, Mike Pence is fair game, and not a sacred cow. Source: Internet

Military spending has become the sacred cow of the federal appropriations process. Source: Internet

Words in the phrase

sacred cow

Close letter words and terms

sacred city Sacred College Sacred College of Cardinals sacred cross sacred day of obligation sacred document