sacred cow

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   a person unreasonably held to be immune to criticism

   Broaderimportant person

Questions about sacred cow

What does sacred cow mean?

sacred cow means "a person unreasonably held to be immune to criticism".

Is sacred cow a common word?

sacred cow is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.