Modest Proposal

What is Modest Proposal?


1.

/n/ suggestion made in satire, from the famous original by Jonathan Swift, in which he suggested solving the Irish potato famine by eating babies. See also straw man

A modest proposal: our new school dress policy should require all students to go entirely without clothes or jewelry, to reduce rampant comsumerism and objectionable messages on T-Shirts.

See satire, irony, straw man, humor, swiftian

2.

Weird, sickening, distasteful. Can be used as a noun or adjective.

Also: One who eats babies.

From Johnathon Swift's satire, A Modest Proposal, which outlined reasons for why we should eat babies.

That ugly girl's display picture is such a modest proposal.

Look Dude, the principal is trying to dance! That's so modest proposal!

I named my hamster Modest Proposal after she got knocked up by a gerbil and ate half of the offspring.

See snarky, weird


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