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What (who) is tub-thumper - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Thumper (disambiguation); Thumper (character)
Thumper
·noun One who, or that which, thumps.
A Tale of a Tub
SATIRE BY JONATHAN SWIFT
Tale of a Tub; The Tale of a Tub; Jack of Leyden; Tale of A Tub; A Tale of a Tub (novel); A tale of a tub; A Tale of a Tub, to Which Is Added the Battle of the Books and the Mechanical Operation of the Spirit; A Tale Of A Tub; A Tale of A Tub
A Tale of a Tub was the first major work written by Jonathan Swift, composed between 1694 and 1697 and published in 1704. It is arguably his most difficult satire, and perhaps his best.
tub-thumping
SINGLE
Tub tumping; I get knocked down; Tub Thumping; Tub-thumping; I Get No Doubt; Tubthumping (Remix); I Get Knocked Down; I get knocked down, but I get up again; I get knocked down but I get up again
informal
¦ adjective expressing opinions in a loud or aggressive manner.
¦ noun the loud or aggressive expression of opinions.
Derivatives
tub-thumper noun
Examples of use of tub-thumper
1. After Ukraine‘s Orange Revolution in late 2004 and early 2005, we went to sleep in a country that was not terribly intelligent, and whose president personally bullied its neighbors and worked as a tub–thumper for Viktor Yanukovych.
2. Article continues He presents Beethoven as a composer of entirely musical, not to say, pianistic appeal, never as a moral or rhetorically heroic tub–thumper, but an artist revelling in the keyboard and putting into the E flat concerto magical things which will not go stale so long as a fresh and musical art of interpretation is brought to them.