sacred cow | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic)Something which cannot be tampered with, or criticized, for fear of public outcry. A person, institution, belief system, etc. which, for no reason other than the demands of established social etiquette or popular opinion, should be accorded respect or reverence, and not touched, handled or examined too closely.1965December, Phil Ochs, “That Was The Year That Weren't”, inCavalier:Manysacred cowswere milked dry in an unbelievable series of outrageous events.1967,Paul Krassner,The Realist, issue 74, May 1967, front page tagline:Irreverence is our onlysacred cow.2022January 12, Sir Michael Holden, “Reform of the workforce or death by a thousand cuts?”, inRAIL, number948, page24:In my opinion, in order to save serious amounts of money, a number of 'sacred cows'will need slaying.

Examples:

EN: Has he met The sacred cow yet?
ES: ¿Ha conocido a "La vaca sagrada"?
EN: The shrine of the sacred cow.
ES: El altar de la vaca sagrada.
EN: -The sacred cow.
ES: - La vaca sagrada.
EN: She is... a cow i wouldn't mind that so much, but she's in danger of becoming a sacred cow, as well.
ES: Es una vaca. No me importaría, pero está en peligro de convertirse en una vaca sagrada también.
EN: - The plan is a sacred cow.
ES: - Porque un plan es sagrado.
EN: It's a scheme to milk us dry, to make a sacred cow out of a murdering monster.
ES: Es una estrategia para fundirnos y hacer una vaca sagrada de un monstruo asesino.
EN: Only this morning, I stepped in sacred cow shit.
ES: Esta mañana me top‚ con caca de vaca sagrada.
EN: Every night, I dream I'm a sacred cow.
ES: Siempre sueño que soy una vaca sagrada.
EN: Ah, a holiday. That sacred cow of our industrial age.
ES: Ah, las vacaciones, el coco de nuestra sociedad.
EN: Anyway, legend had it that there was a stone temple over a thousand years old with a statue of what could only be a Tibetan monkey and a sacred cow engaged in a most obscene act.
ES: La leyenda cuenta que había un templo de piedra de más de 1.000 años con una estatua de lo que sólo podía ser un mono tibetano y una vaca sagrada comprometidos en un acto de lo más obsceno.
EN: I was assigned to Lord Mountbatten as his temporary batman... while his Sergeant Major recovered from a mishap with a sacred cow.
ES: Fui asignado, temporalmente, como edecán de Lord Mountbatten... mientras su ayudante se recuperaba de una cornada de una vaca sagrada.
EN: The Holocaust is the world's sacred cow.
ES: El Holocausto es la vaca sagrada del mundo.
EN: We should offer to him... a cow... a sacred cow.
ES: Deberíamos ofrecerle... una vaca... una vaca consagrada.
EN: ♪ I am not a sacred cow ♪
ES: # No soy una vaca sagrada. #
EN: The Texans who got drunk and rode the sacred cow into the market?
ES: ¿Y a los texanos borrachos que montaron la vaca sagrada?

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