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Meaning of bozone layer | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

The layer surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating.

humorous, uncountable

Examples

“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.”
“They penetrated even the bozone layer of the Canadian Government, and the policy was temporarily withdrawn.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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