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Colonel Blimp is a British cartoon character by cartoonist David Low, first drawn for Lord Beaverbrook's London Evening Standard in April 1934. Blimp is pompous, irascible, jingoistic and stereotypically British. Low said he developed the character after overhearing two military men in a Turkish bath declare that cavalry officers should be entitled to wear their spurs inside tanks. The character was named after the barrage balloon, which was known as a blimp.
Colonel Blimp is a British cartoon character.
Colonel Blimp may refer to:
- The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, a 1943 British comedy film
- Colonel Blimp (production company), the video production branch of the British production company Blink
Usage examples of "colonel blimp".
If a man cannot forgive the Colonel Blimp next door whom he has seen, how shall he forgive the dictators whom he hath not seen?
Let me introduce you Dinah Lee Colonel Blimp, of the county police.
And then I crumpled the letter up because I realized I was in serious danger of turning into one of the Colonel Blimp types who sat around me in considerable numbers, eating cornflakes or porridge with their blimpish wives, and without whom hotels like the Old England would not be able to survive.
He was so Brit that he was almost as much a caricature of the serving officer as Colonel Blimp had been, and she knew he considered Zainal a dangerous commodity.
She was driven from her country in nineteen thirty-nine, and hates the Russians more than the most blimpish Colonel Blimp in the country.
But putting in a Colonel Blimp-style board of governors there would blow any chance of getting to the bottom of it.