Byword

Japan's brands (outside of the likes of, say, Lexus) have long been a byword in affordable and reliable vehicles worldwide.

With the biggest vineyard estate in Champagne, Moët & Chandon has become a byword for French fizz since 1743, but it’s not one to to rest on its laurels.

The idea of evictions and lack of access to housing is particularly resonant, Mr. Doyle said, because of Ireland’s centuries under British rule, during which the callous absentee landlord became a byword for oppression.

This is a super-refreshing; a very food friendly style of white wine that would pair well with anything from fish and chips to spicy Asian dishes, and it comes from a producer that is a byword for fair value.

His name became a byword for dedication to the cause of peace, whatever the obstacles or criticisms,” Bishop McKeown said.

Mr Seboka said corruption, bad governance and general lawlessness had become a byword for Mr Thabane's outgoing government.

The statement read in part: “In the last few days our great party has become the talking point and of course the byword for all that is wrong in party politics.

Bonesetter Reese’s name remained a byword long after his death, thrown into columns during Hot Stove season by old-timers recollecting the man who kept players on the field in the early days before sports medicine became its own industry.

It has been quite some transformation for Britain’s men’s squad, who for the best part of a decade were a byword for incompetence and rancour.

Meanwhile, in parts of social media, the phrase “personal brand” has become a kind of ironic millennial in-joke, a byword for pretentiousness.

Railtrack, the privatised company managing the infrastructure, became a byword for disaster.

The well-known site near the Phoenix Park, first constructed in 1954, has been derelict for the past 10 years and had become a byword for anti-social behaviour while stakeholders tried to agree out how it should best be redeveloped.

He damaged himself over the number of years he took to metamorphose into a byword for presidential corruption.

The Zealots, a Jewish sect whose name later became a byword for political extremism, agitated for Judean independence, while inept Roman administrators were unable to control the situation.

Although Sherlock Holmes is not the original fiction detective (he was influenced by Poe's Dupin and Gaboriau's Lecoq ), his name has become a byword for the part.

Etymology The name Dagda may ultimately be derived from the Proto-Indo-European *Dhagho-deiwos "shining divinity", the first element being cognate with the English word " day ", and possibly a byword for a deification of a notion such as "splendour".

For instance, a " white elephant " is a byword for something expensive, useless and bizarre.

Richardson 1994, p. 231. The book, however, quickly became a byword for unwholesomeness among mainstream critics of the day.

Spam captured a large slice of the British market within the lower classes, and became a byword among British children of the 1960s for low-grade fodder due to its commonality, monotonous taste and cheap price, leading to the humour of the Python sketch.

Teuton was the byword the Romans applied to the barbarians from the north and which they used to describe subsequent Germanic peoples.