English
boy scout
see also: Boy Scout
Noun

boy scout (plural boy scouts)

  1. A male member of the Scout Movement.
  2. A person adhering to the values of honor and honesty.
    • 1982 The Economist, Volume 284, Economist Newspaper Ltd., p24
      An independently rich 52-year-old, he is very much a political boy scout, and has flailed the state Republican party as a cloistered "country club".
    • 1987 Wall Street Journal, October 2
      But the bottom line is that Simon is running for president as the boy scout who adheres to traditional liberal policies and solutions.
    • 2003 Roger F. S. Kaplan, Conservative socialism: the decline of radicalism and triumph of the Left in France, Transaction Publishers, p91
      Rocard, whose two marriages had failed during his long years as the left's boy scout, was reported to be living with a psychoanalyst.
Synonyms
Boy Scout
Noun

boy scout

  1. A male member of the Scout Movement.
  2. (slang) A person, especially a politician, who is idealistic and naive.
    • 2003 Alexander Cockburn & Jeffrey St. Clair, Al Gore: a user's manual, Verso, p233
      Gore, of course, has never been a political Boy Scout, least of all when it comes to campaign finance.
    • 2004 Paul Alexander, Man of the People: The Life of John McCain, John Wiley and Sons, p167
      When he arrived in Washington, some people thought of him as a Boy Scout, perhaps because he wore his hair in a crew cut.
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