英语词汇vicar of bray的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	vicar of bray
词源	Vicar of Bray. A Vicar of Bray is someone who holds onto his office or position no matter who is in power and will go to any length to do so. The term refers to a semi-legendary Vicar of Bray, Berkshire, in England who became twice a Roman Catholic and twice a Protestant under four different monarchs between 1520 and 1560, in the words of one contemporary writer “being resolved, whoever was king, to die Vicar of Bray.”
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