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Sacred Cow

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Noun

1. sacred cow

a person unreasonably held to be immune to criticism

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Sacred Cow

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noun
informal
a person, institution, custom, etc, unreasonably held to be beyond criticism

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Sacred Cow

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any person or thing regarded as above criticism or attack

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Sacred Cow

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n.
One that is immune from criticism, often unreasonably so: "The need for widespread secrecy has become a sacred cow" (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists).

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