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Apr 26, 2011
. . . the earliest work in English that specifically refers to the current meaning of the phrase is a collaborative work of Frederick Rothwell and the splendidly named Cloudesley Shovell Henry Brereton -H. L. Bergson's Laughter, 1911: "Each member [of society] must be ever attentive to his social surroundings - he must avoid shutting himself up in his own peculiar character as a philosopher in his ivory tower." What? Each person compared to the isolated philosopher? We can all live in ivory towers—maybe we do already? This metaphor is dead. It is also a snarl phrase. What’s that? See S. I. Hayakawa: Language in Thought and Action Snarl-words are words used for their unpleasant, disparaging connotations rather than for their actual reference. (I took this from [link removed] . . .
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