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Blue-collar workers do physical work with their hands: in factories, on building sites, in workshops, driving trucks, repairing machines — rather than sitting in an office. The name comes from the blue work shirts, often denim or chambray, that manual workers wore, while office workers wore white dress shirts. So the colour of the collar stood for the kind of job. It can describe a person, a job, a town, or a way of life. Newspapers use it as a social label; it is not an insult by itself, though how it feels depends on who says it. Though actually, plenty of well-paid are blue-collar, and plenty of office jobs pay less, so it is about the type of work, not about being poor or unskilled.
組成blue + collar. From the blue work shirts of people who did physical jobs, against the white shirts of office staff.
同家族的字
- white-collaroffice workers; the pairing this word was built against
- collarthe neck of a shirt; its colour became a label for the job
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
blue-collaradj
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Working class; engaged or trained in essentially manual labor.
- Blue-collar workers represent a diminishing segment of society.
- The blue-collar, vulnerable McClane of Die Hard wouldn’t even recognize the bulletproof, catchphrase-spouting superhero he’s become in the sequels.
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Pertaining to the culture of blue-collar workers.
- Even as a tenured professor, she remained proud of her blue-collar values.
blue-collarnoun
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A blue-collar worker.
- In ways, these people defined what it was to be a really good lesbian or a really good dyke. For example: You needed to be articulate or aggressive […] You either needed to be a university or community college person, or a real sincere and hardworking blue collar. If you were from one of the outlying towns, you were likely to have a black mark against you in the first place.
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