Brigitte Bardot
English
Etymology
Named after French fashion model and actress Brigitte Bardot (1934–).
Sense 2 inspired by Bardot's popular nickname, BB.
Pronunciation
Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -əʊ
Noun
Brigitte Bardot (plural Brigitte Bardots)
- Someone or something very beautiful or desirable.
- 1974, The Spectator, volume 232, part 1, page 51:
- I can claim no such dedication to duty since Christmas was passed way up the French Alps in a place where Brigitte Bardots are two-a-penny but horses a rarity.
- 1980, Thomas N. Gladwin; Ingo Walter, Multinationals Under Fire: Lessons in the Management of Conflict, page 268:
- […] performance swelled French national pride and excited the fancy of stock market speculators — it became “the Brigitte Bardot of French industry.”
- 1994, J. I. Packer, A Quest for Godliness: The Puritan Vision of the Christian Life, page 268:
- ...who, in discussing the Puritan position, declared: ‘I want a Brigitte Bardot who can lead a Bible class’
- 2009, Christina Palassio; Alana Wilcox, quoting Andrew Braithwaite, Toronto, je t'aime!, quoted in The Edible City: Toronto's Food from Farm to Fork, page unnumbered:
- Paris is the greatest food city in the world – the Rolls Royce, the Château d'Yquem, the Brigitte Bardot of gastronomic capitals.
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- (Australia, finance, informal) A back-to-back loan.
- 1992 March 3, Michael Rozenes, “Prosecuting Regulatory Offenders”, in parliamentary debates:
- These practices included back to back loans (in some quarters colloquially termed Brigitte Bardot′s from the initials B.B.), […] .
- 1995, The Bulletin, number 5953-5959, page 77:
- This is a back-to-back loan, sometimes called BBs or Brigitte Bardots.
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