1. sacred cow - Noun
2. sacred cow - Phrase
a person unreasonably held to be immune to criticism
Source: WordNetIn 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