Meaning of Brigitte Bardot | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Someone or something very beautiful or desirable.
2. A back-to-back loan.
   Australia, informal

Examples

“I can claim no such dedication to duty since Christmas was passed way up the French Alps in a place where Brigitte Bardots are two-a-penny but horses a rarity.”

“[…]performance swelled French national pride and excited the fancy of stock market speculators — it became “the Brigitte Bardot of French industry.””

“...who, in discussing the Puritan position, declared: ‘I want a Brigitte Bardot who can lead a Bible class’”

“Paris is the greatest food city in the world – the Rolls Royce, the Château d'Yquem, the Brigitte Bardot of gastronomic capitals.”

“These practices included back to back loans (in some quarters colloquially termed Brigitte Bardot′s from the initials B.B.),[…].”

“This is a back-to-back loan, sometimes called BBs or Brigitte Bardots.”

CEFR level