Meaning of bozone | Babel Free
/ˈboʊzoʊn/Definitions
The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating.
humorous, uncountable
Examples
“The official report didn't mention it, but I suspect that there was an unusual odor in the air when this guy was caught. No, I'm not alking about the drugs—I think it was the distinctive smell of bozone.”
“But attaining wisdom, despite our possible "bozone" layers, should still be a priority in our lives.”
““Is there a bozone layer over your school?””
“Elliot referred to the speed bump level of management as the bozone layer. If Elliot was the get 'em guy guru; George Devine was lord of the bozone layer.”
“I call it the bozone layer. It's a symptom of the immune system, a fog of inertia that infects people who are stuck in status quo thinking. It is designed to resist the process mind. Managers in the bozone layer find it difficult to accept new thinking, as discovered in Daniel Kahneman's (psychologist and winner of the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences) research, especially if the thinking breaks though the bozone layer and sheds light on problems that have been there all along.”
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“We knew that the direct and indirect schemes of the DIA, its thick bozone, had created our intergenerational catastrophes.”
CEFR level
B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.