tall poppy

There is, of course, a tendency to cut down the tall poppy.

Then he explains, in what will be the first of 20 times, about tall poppies.

The goal should be to elevate the poor, not knock down the tall poppies.

Thus the "tall poppy syndrome," a national preoccupation with cutting those who would be successful down to size.

The series addressed the tall poppy syndrome that often accompanies success in Australia.

Isn't that something like being a tall poppy?

Nothing at all like a tall poppy!

Grow into a tall poppy, people slice you off, whittle you down to size.

"The other side of that coin is something we call the 'tall poppy' syndrome.

Some of this tall poppy syndrome modulates into a simple art/money conflict more comprehensible to an American.

Tall Poppies has commissioned 47 new works.

The awards honour New Zealand's tall poppies who are successful on an international level.

Tall poppy syndrome, writ large - what a miserable bunch of pricks these people are.

Modesty was expected and enforced through the "tall poppy syndrome", where high achievers received harsh criticism.

If you want to talk about snobbery towards certain sports, then this can only be described as another ugly example of Britain's tall poppy syndrome.

Yet it was her own countrymen who first demonstrated the 'tall poppy syndrome' she had herself foretold.

"The tall poppies of the party had dragged Mr. Lang's name into the debate to cloud the issue."

Tall Poppies presents the work of Australian composers.

Tall Poppies commissions works for recording.

Tall poppy syndrome is related to what some conservatives, liberals, and libertarians call 'the politics of envy'.

"Mr. Lang made some of the tall poppies suffer who could be made to suffer."

It has a name - The "Tall Poppy Syndrome."

Tall poppies will be culled.

I believe in the tall poppy syndrome that if you grow up too tall there will always be people ready to cut you down to size.

Tall Poppies is a not-for-profit label.