Today's slang word of the day is sacred cow. Click here to vote on usage, vulgarity, etc.
noun
- something that should not be questioned.
He goes on to butcher a herd of sacred cows. Like many greens I have thoughtlessly repeated the claim that it requires 100,000 litres of water to produce every kilogram of beef. Fairlie shows that this figure is wrong by around three orders of magnitude.
-- "I was wrong about veganism. Let them eat meat - but farm it properly", The Guardian (UK), George Monbiot, 6 September 2010
-- Walter (waltergr@aol.com)
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