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  • "I heard you call him."
    I raised my eyebrows. "You are like Big Brother."   (source)
  • BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, the caption beneath it ran.   (source)
    Big Brother = an organization that attempts to exercise total control over people and that invades their privacy to do so
  • At those moments his secret loathing of Big Brother changed into adoration,   (source)
    Big Brother = a person or organization that attempts to exercise total control over people and that invades their privacy to do so
  • BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, the caption said, while the dark eyes looked deep into Winston's own.   (source)
    Big Brother = an organization that attempts to exercise total control over people and that invades their privacy to do so
  • ...DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER over and over again, filling half a page.   (source)
    Big Brother = a person or organization that attempts to exercise total control over people and that invades their privacy to do so
  • His pen had slid voluptuously over the smooth paper, printing in large neat capitals DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER...   (source)
  • Thus, at one moment Winston's hatred was not turned against Goldstein at all, but, on the contrary, against Big Brother, the Party, and the Thought Police; and at such moments his heart went out to the lonely, derided heretic on the screen, sole guardian of truth and sanity in a world of lies.   (source)
  • DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER   (source)
  • DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER   (source)
  • DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER   (source)
  • He was abusing Big Brother, he was denouncing the dictatorship of the Party, he was demanding the immediate conclusion of peace with Eurasia, he was advocating freedom of speech, freedom of the Press, freedom of assembly, freedom of thought, he was crying hysterically that the revolution had been betrayed — and all this in rapid polysyllabic speech which was a sort of parody of the habitual style of the orators of the Party, and even contained Newspeak words: more Newspeak words,…   (source)
  • ...Big Brother seemed to tower up, an invincible, fearless protector, standing like a rock against the hordes of Asia, and Goldstein, in spite of his isolation, his helplessness, and the doubt that hung about his very existence, seemed like some sinister enchanter, capable by the mere power of his voice of wrecking the structure of civilization.   (source)
    Big Brother = (of an) organization that attempts to exercise total control over people and that invades their privacy to do so
  • Big Brother is the guise in which the Party chooses to exhibit itself to the world.   (source)
    Big Brother = an organization that attempts to exercise total control over people and that invades their privacy to do so
  • Winston looked up at the portrait of Big Brother.   (source)
  • Big Brother is the embodiment of the Party.   (source)
  • BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, the caption said.   (source)
  • By 1970 none of them was left, except Big Brother himself.   (source)
  • What were his true feelings towards Big Brother?   (source)
  • He tried to remember in what year he had first heard mention of Big Brother.   (source)
  • Big Brother added a few remarks on the purity and single-mindedness of Comrade Ogilvy's life.   (source)
  • He looked up again at the portrait of Big Brother.   (source)
  • Whether he wrote DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER, or whether he refrained from writing it, made no difference.   (source)
  • There was nothing left in them except sorrow for what they had done, and love of Big Brother.   (source)
  • Winston decided that it would not be enough simply to reverse the tendency of Big Brother's speech.   (source)
  • There will be no love, except the love of Big Brother.   (source)
  • Nobody heard what Big Brother was saying.   (source)
  • A sort of vapid eagerness flitted across Winston's face at the mention of Big Brother.   (source)
  • Below Big Brother comes the Inner Party.   (source)
  • The face of Big Brother swam into his mind, displacing that of O'Brien.   (source)
  • Perhaps Big Brother was merely getting rid of a too-popular subordinate.   (source)
  • At the apex of the pyramid comes Big Brother.   (source)
  • Big Brother is infallible and all-powerful.   (source)
  • From the age of uniformity, from the age of solitude, from the age of Big Brother, from the age of doublethink — greetings!   (source)
  • On the walls were scarlet banners of the Youth League and the Spies, and a full-sized poster of Big Brother.   (source)
  • Oceanic society rests ultimately on the belief that Big Brother is omnipotent and that the Party is infallible.   (source)
  • It was therefore necessary to rewrite a paragraph of Big Brother's speech in such a way as to make him predict the thing that had actually happened.   (source)
  • It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grammes a week.   (source)
  • In that sense, does Big Brother exist?   (source)
  • DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER was written all over it, in letters almost big enough to be legible across the room.   (source)
  • Very likely as many as a dozen people were now working away on rival versions of what Big Brother had actually said.   (source)
  • There, too, in tiny clear lettering, the same slogans were inscribed, and on the other face of the coin the head of Big Brother.   (source)
  • The thing had been plastered on every blank space on every wall, even outnumbering the portraits of Big Brother.   (source)
  • In the Party histories, of course, Big Brother figured as the leader and guardian of the Revolution since its very earliest days.   (source)
  • He picked up the children's history book and looked at the portrait of Big Brother which formed its frontispiece.   (source)
  • If you're happy inside yourself, why should you get excited about Big Brother and the Three-Year Plans and the Two Minutes Hate and all the rest of their bloody rot?'   (source)
  • But since in reality Big Brother is not omnipotent and the party is not infallible, there is need for an unwearying, moment-to-moment flexibility in the treatment of facts.   (source)
  • He was particularly enthusiastic about a papier-mâché model of Big Brother's head, two meters wide, which was being made for the occasion by his daughter's troop of Spies.   (source)
  • Tell me, Winston — and remember, no lies: you know that I am always able to detect a lie — tell me, what are your true feelings towards Big Brother?   (source)
  • There were occasions when Big Brother devoted his Order for the Day to commemorating some humble, rank-and-file Party member whose life and death he held up as an example worthy to be followed.   (source)
  • Partly it was a sort of hymn to the wisdom and majesty of Big Brother, but still more it was an act of self-hypnosis, a deliberate drowning of consciousness by means of rhythmic noise.   (source)
  • The songs, the processions, the banners, the hiking, the drilling with dummy rifles, the yelling of slogans, the worship of Big Brother — it was all a sort of glorious game to them.   (source)
  • He had the feeling, though already at that time facts and dates were growing blurry, that he had known their names years earlier than he had known that of Big Brother.   (source)
  • Nobody has ever seen Big Brother.   (source)
  • For example, it appeared from The Times of the seventeenth of March that Big Brother, in his speech of the previous day, had predicted that the South Indian front would remain quiet but that a Eurasian offensive would shortly be launched in North Africa.   (source)
  • A number of The Times which might, because of changes in political alignment, or mistaken prophecies uttered by Big Brother, have been rewritten a dozen times still stood on the files bearing its original date, and no other copy existed to contradict it.   (source)
  • He might be denouncing Goldstein and demanding sterner measures against thought-criminals and saboteurs, he might be fulminating against the atrocities of the Eurasian army, he might be praising Big Brother or the heroes on the Malabar front-it made no difference.   (source)
  • All over Oceania this morning there were irrepressible spontaneous demonstrations when workers marched out of factories and offices and paraded through the streets with banners voicing their gratitude to Big Brother for the new, happy life which his wise leadership has bestowed upon us.   (source)
  • He began writing in a hurried untidy scrawl: theyll shoot me i don't care theyll shoot me in the back of the neck i dont care down with big brother they always shoot you in the back of the neck i dont care down with big brother—   (source)
  • Big Brother's Order for the Day, it seemed, had been chiefly devoted to praising the work of an organization known as FFCC, which supplied cigarettes and other comforts to the sailors in the Floating Fortresses.   (source)
  • He thought of Big Brother.   (source)
  • Will Big Brother ever die?   (source)
  • But in the same moment, drawing a deep sigh of relief from everybody, the hostile figure melted into the face of Big Brother, black-haired, black-moustachio'd, full of power and mysterious calm, and so vast that it almost filled up the screen.   (source)
  • With its grace and carelessness it seemed to annihilate a whole culture, a whole system of thought, as though Big Brother and the Party and the Thought Police could all be swept into nothingness by a single splendid movement of the arm.   (source)
  • In Oldspeak (or standard English) this might be rendered: The reporting of Big Brother's Order for the Day in The Times of December 3rd 1983 is extremely unsatisfactory and makes references to non-existent persons.   (source)
  • Pursued by enemy jet planes while flying over the Indian Ocean with important despatches, he had weighted his body with his machine gun and leapt out of the helicopter into deep water, despatches and all — an end, said Big Brother, which it was impossible to contemplate without feelings of envy.   (source)
  • To the death of Big Brother?   (source)
  • Winston thought for a moment, then pulled the speakwrite towards him and began dictating in Big Brother's familiar style: a style at once military and pedantic, and, because of a trick of asking questions and then promptly answering them ('What lessons do we learn from this fact, comrades?')   (source)
  • You must love Big Brother.   (source)
  • He believed in the principles of Ingsoc, he venerated Big Brother, he rejoiced over victories, he hated heretics, not merely with sincerity but with a sort of restless zeal, an up-to-dateness of information, which the ordinary Party member did not approach.   (source)
  • He wandered round the base of the enormous fluted column, at the top of which Big Brother's statue gazed southward towards the skies where he had vanquished the Eurasian airplanes (the Eastasian airplanes, it had been, a few years ago) in the Battle of Airstrip One.   (source)
  • Most of the time they screamed abuse at him and threatened at every hesitation to deliver him over to the guards again; but sometimes they would suddenly change their tune, call him comrade, appeal to him in the name of Ingsoc and Big Brother, and ask him sorrowfully whether even now he had not enough loyalty to the Party left to make him wish to undo the evil he had done.   (source)
  • Goldstein was the renegade and backslider who once, long ago (how long ago, nobody quite remembered), had been one of the leading figures of the Party, almost on a level with Big Brother himself, and then had engaged in counter-revolutionary activities, had been condemned to death, and had mysteriously escaped and disappeared.   (source)
  • They had confessed to intelligence with the enemy (at that date, too, the enemy was Eurasia), embezzlement of public funds, the murder of various trusted Party members, intrigues against the leadership of Big Brother which had started long before the Revolution happened, and acts of sabotage causing the death of hundreds of thousands of people.   (source)
  • He loved Big Brother.   (source)
  • Does Big Brother exist?   (source)
  • Then the face of Big Brother faded away again, and instead the three slogans of the Party stood out in bold capitals: WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH But the face of Big Brother seemed to persist for several seconds on the screen, as though the impact that it had made on everyone's eyeballs was too vivid to wear off immediately.   (source)
  • Down with Big Brother!   (source)
  • It's like the school equivalent of watching Big Brother, I get to eavesdrop on the drama and it's not mentally taxing in the least.   (source)
    Big Brother = a reference to George Orwell's depiction of "Big Brother" in the novel, 1984 where "Big Brother" knew all about people's lives
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  • It's no secret that my big brother is the result of a "for hire" session Daddy had with Iesha after a fight with Momma.   (source)
    big brother = an older, bigger brother
  • Luke was my big brother; I thought he would know what to do, so I grabbed his shoulders and shook him, hard.   (source)
  • We want to know if you are one of us, if your cousin knows our cousin, if your little sister went to school with our big brother, if you go to the same Baptist church as our ex-boss.   (source)
  • There are worse things than being a Third, worse things than a big brother who can't make up his mind whether to be a human being or a jackal.   (source)
  • Stood there and watched and forgot everything else until her big brother screamed at her to hurry up.   (source)
  • "You're welcome," he says, just like his big brother.   (source)
  • I realized ...I guess I realized I had to be a big brother, you know?   (source)
  • Lotte imagined her son must see Martin as the big brother he had always wished for.   (source)
  • Tony wanted the best for Wes, but he still felt that part of his mission as a big brother was to toughen him up for the battles Tony knew Wes would have to fight as he got older.   (source)
  • He's like my big brother.   (source)
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  • I'm talking to my new friend Mai, but even her always-surly and scary-because-he's-older big brother, Quang-ha, says a few words to me in their now only semisecret language.   (source)
  • He's our big brother.   (source)
  • Oh, Peter adored his big brother.   (source)
  • "Wow," said the brothers, gazing up at their big brother.   (source)
  • Big brother has to tolerate too many silly conversations and dance with a lot of annoying girls.   (source)
  • And nine months later your father and I had our proof of citizenship, a baby boy, your big brother Winston.   (source)
  • He was trying to sound firm like a big brother, but he was also looking at me strangely, as though I'd done something amazing and he couldn't quite believe my daring.   (source)
  • But after a few months, when the big brother upstairs turned out to be Big Brother, she got on her bicycle and rode through the neighborhood of her high school days until she spotted an apartment with fresh-painted walls and masking tape on the windows.   (source)
  • Ahmad tried playing the big brother.   (source)
  • I light the candle, I kneel at his statue and beg him to get me out of fifth class where I'm stuck with my brother, who is probably going around the lane now bragging that his big brother was kept back.   (source)
  • I knew if it wasn't for Byron being my big brother Larry would have said something like "Since my fifty cents found this other fifty cents and they hooked up to make this here buck I'm gonna keep the whole thing."   (source)
  • It took four fifth-graders to lift the concrete off Sampson's crushed footSampson looked up at his big brother and at the bright summer sky that seemed so far above him.   (source)
  • On the second floor lived the Brady family: father Karel, mother Marketa, Hana and her big brother George.   (source)
  • If you want to put tears on your tiger or dragons in your jungle, you tell your teacher that your big brother said it was just fine.   (source)
  • He will be the big brother you never had.   (source)
  • Alan's big brother was Tony Morris, who used to be the school's biggest bully until he got thrown out.   (source)
  • Juliet looked at her big brother.   (source)
  • I was sorry to see my big brother leave, but it was a relief also.   (source)
  • And then, seeming to realize he'd spoken too curtly: "Welty was Juliet's big brother."   (source)
  • Even Big Larry, whom I once considered my "big brother," brushed me off before he moved out.   (source)
  • I looked up to him, but not as a big brother.   (source)
  • Sheku and Josiah stood next to me as if sharing a tent with them meant that I had become their big brother.   (source)
  • She turns her face to look at him, her big brother, her ally in all things, but his face is too close and she can't see the whole of it.   (source)
  • Jai and I will bring Dylan along as well, since every experience Logan has these days doesn't seem complete unless he's engaged in the action with his big brother.   (source)
  • This is where her big brother spends his days and nights, the musician, the brain, the handsome youngster the girls giggled over.   (source)
  • Hero of Olympus ....and my big brother!   (source)
  • I still had a great deal of little-sister worship for this big brother, five years older than I, an ordained minister and the only ten Boom who had ever been to college.   (source)
  • I was still big brother, hoping to protect him.   (source)
  • Ben was with me and he was invited, too, but ever the protective big brother-he said we shouldn't go because he didn't trust the guy, he thought he was a sleazy creep.   (source)
  • Quil will be the best, kindest big brother any kid ever had.   (source)
  • And Nick also wanted to give some money to his big brother, James—who said he did not need it and would not accept it.   (source)
  • He was more interested in Michael's capacity to serve as an entertaining big brother and wily co-conspirator.   (source)
  • I had heard about the central government wanting more young men to go to Tibet, and Big Brother Cuncia had suggested to our parents that Cunyuan should go.   (source)
    big brother = a nickname in this novel
  • He could practically feel his big brother's hand on his shoulder, smell his breath, hear his voice speaking quietly in the darkness.   (source)
    big brother = an older, bigger brother
  • Alex could join Luma's older team with Grace's big brother Josue.   (source)
  • Today Curtis is an engineer, and I'm still proud of my big brother.   (source)
  • Of all people, my big brother.   (source)
  • "I had this Sunday School teacher," Ellerby goes on, "and every time I asked her a tough question—like 'How come nobody ever caught Jack the Ripper?' or 'Why did my big brother get killed when he got straight A's clear through college and was going into the seminary?'"   (source)
  • That's the way I always felt about him, like he was my big brother and could do just about anything.   (source)
  • Then: "He's the only big brother I got."   (source)
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