Cheese-eating surrender monkeys
Pejorative term for French people / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"Cheese-eating surrender monkeys", sometimes shortened to "surrender monkeys", is a pejorative term for French people. The term is based on the stereotype of the French that they surrender quickly. It was coined in 1995 by Ken Keeler, a writer for the television series The Simpsons, and has entered two Oxford quotation dictionaries.
This article is missing information about relevant French history of surrendering such as the Armistice of 22 June 1940. (July 2023) |