The word brigade, originally used to describe a military unit, can also be used as a pejorative collective noun to describe an informal group of like-minded individuals with views with which the speaker disagrees. It is used as a mild term of disapproval or contempt, or in an attempt to belittle and ridicule the subject. For example, "PC Brigade" is used to describe a supposed group of people who go around enforcing ridiculously politically correct rules.
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- The word brigade, originally used to describe a military unit, can also be used as a pejorative collective noun to describe an informal group of like-minded individuals with views with which the speaker disagrees. It is used as a mild term of disapproval or contempt, or in an attempt to belittle and ridicule the subject. For example, "PC Brigade" is used to describe a supposed group of people who go around enforcing ridiculously politically correct rules. "Green Welly Brigade" refers in a deprecating way to well-heeled people who find their recreation in the countryside. Similarly, Morality Brigade, NIMBY Brigade. The term may have have its origins in The Angry Brigade, a British anarchist group of the early 1970s.
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- The word brigade, originally used to describe a military unit, can also be used as a pejorative collective noun to describe an informal group of like-minded individuals with views with which the speaker disagrees. It is used as a mild term of disapproval or contempt, or in an attempt to belittle and ridicule the subject. For example, "PC Brigade" is used to describe a supposed group of people who go around enforcing ridiculously politically correct rules.
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