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It describes someone who is generous giving to institutions acting elsewhere but miserly to those directly around them.
by thatjoeoverthr 4y ago
It describes someone who is generous giving to institutions acting elsewhere but miserly to those directly around them.
- everybodyknows 4y agoA recurring theme in English literature of roughly that period. A Mrs. Jellyby in Dickens's Bleak House leaves her children unwashed and malnourished while she dictates letters promoting some notionally charitable project in progress on a distant continent.