6 Metaphors for radicals

The name Belgae belongs to the Cymric language, in which, under the form Belgiaid, the radical of which is Belg, it signifies warlike; they are the most warlike people of Gaul, G. i. 1; withstand the invasion of the Teutones and Cimbri, G. ii. 4; originally of German extraction, ibid.

When that radical, having dined with his coat off, walked into his bedroom and I saw the braces on his back, it became clear to me that that radical is a bourgeois, a hopeless bourgeois.

In other countries, the radical of one century is the conservative of the next; in ours, the conservative of one generation is the radical of the next.

What makes the Radical of the street is mostly mother-wit exercising itself upon the facts of the time.

I have since met with the following, from a speech of Lord Brougham's, which pleased me, as being as radical as mine in your stately Hall of Representatives: "'Before women can have any justice by the laws of England, there must be a total reconstruction of the whole marriage system; for any attempt to amend it would prove useless.

The Radicals are the ten-pound holders.

6 Metaphors for  radicals