Modest Proposal


/n/ suggestion made in satire, from the famous original by jonathan swift, in which he suggested solving the irish potato famine by eating babies. see also straw man
a modest proposal: our new school dress policy should require all students to go entirely without clothes or jewelry, to reduce rampant comsumerism and objectionable messages on t-shirts.
weird, sickening, distasteful. can be used as a noun or adjective.
also: one who eats babies.
from johnathon swift’s satire, a modest proposal, which outlined reasons for why we should eat babies.
that ugly girl’s display picture is such a modest proposal.

look dude, the princ-p-l is trying to dance! that’s so modest proposal!

i named my hamster modest proposal after she got knocked up by a gerbil and ate half of the offspring.

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