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Yahoos
- The crude, dirty “brutes†of the land of the Houyhnhnms in Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift . The Yahoos are irrational people and represent the worst side of humanity. By contrast, the wise and gentle Houyhnhnms, their masters, are rational horses and represent humanity at its best.
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Notes
A “yahoo†is an uncouth or uncivilized person.
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That goes over well among the American Taliban and their uncouth cousins, the American Yahoos.
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Say what you will about Victorian England’s prime ministers and business leaders, at least they weren’t Yahoos.
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Because the toddler was ultimately not separated from her mother, Ms. Parker wrote, “You could practically hear the ‘Yahoos!’ from the Oval Office to the Fox News headquarters.â€
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You could practically hear the “Yahoos!†from the Oval Office to the Fox News headquarters.
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If Gulliver could travel through time, instead of sailing around the world, imagine how familiar the Yahoos of Washington would look to him now.
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