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Meaning of more Catholic than the Pope | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C2

Definitions

  1. Adhering more stringently to Roman Catholic practices and doctrine than is required by church doctrine.
    comparative-only
  2. Adhering more stringently to any norm more strictly than is required by the arbiters of the norm.
    broadly, comparative-only

Equivalents

Suomi paavillisempi kuin paavi itse
Français être plus catholique que le pape être plus royaliste que le roi
Nederlands roomser dan de paus

Examples

“The recently liberated European states east of the Oder-Neisse line, seeking not only entry into NATO but membership in the Union club as well, had to be more circumspect, more “European” so to speak, more Catholic than the pope”
“It has been asserted that Blair, far from seeking to slow Bush's rush to war, urged him to be tough, in an attempt to be 'more Catholic than the Pope'.”
“Strict disciples of history as a science may scorn the intuitive process, but that attitude comes from being more Catholic than the Pope.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

See also

more comfortable than an old shoe more dead than alive more equal more royalist than the king more so more than one can shake a stick at

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