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In British English, the thinking man's crumpet or thinking woman's crumpet is a humorous term for a person who is popular with the opposite sex because of their intelligence and their physical attractiveness.〔(the thinking woman's/man's crumpet - definition in the British English Dictionary & Thesaurus - Cambridge Dictionaries Online )〕 The expression is derived from the slang use of the term "crumpet" to refer to a woman who is regarded as an object of sexual desire.〔(Crumpet ), from World Wide Words.〕 ==Usage== The first person to be called "the thinking man's crumpet" was Joan Bakewell, by humourist Frank Muir, following her appearances in high-brow television discussion programmes such as BBC2's ''Late Night Line-Up''.〔(An affair to remember ), ''The Daily Telegraph'', 5 October 2003.〕 Bakewell is still synonymous with the phrase, but it has subsequently been applied to other high-profile women such as Anne Gregg,〔(Obituary ), ''The Independent'', 9 September 2006.〕 Joanna Lumley,〔 Kate Bush and Felicity Kendal,〔 and, more recently, Helen Mirren〔(Helen Mirren: A real drama queen ), ''The Independent'', 3 September 2006.〕 Jennifer Saunders, Lucy Worsley and Gillian Anderson.〔(The X Files Uncovered ), Fox Home Entertainment.〕 Trumpeter Alison Balsom is sometimes referred to as the "trumpet crumpet".〔See, for example, ''Daily Mail'', 10 September 2009 and 3 June 2011〕 In a poll in the ''Radio Times'' in 2003, Nigella Lawson received the most votes to be the readers' "thinking man's crumpet",〔(Press Release ), BBC Worldwide, 22 September 2003.〕 with Carol Vorderman in second place. Almost half a century after Muir deployed the term, Bakewell (by then Baroness Bakewell and a Dame of the British Empire) remarked that "it has taken me a lifetime to live it down. It was meant as a compliment I suppose, but it was a little bit of a put-down".〔Quoted in ''The Oldie'', June 2014〕 Actors Benedict Cumberbatch, Colin Firth and Bill Nighy have been repeatedly called by the press "the thinking woman's crumpet".〔(Shinan Govani: Tapping Idris Elba and Benedict Cumberbatch, the Titans of TIFF | National Post )〕 But even before them, Michael Kitchen was acclaimed as "the thinking woman's crumpet" in a review in "The Mail" in November 2003. After the release of the 1997 film ''Titanic'', Kate Winslet was dubbed by one newspaper as "the sinking man's crumpet", but this moniker was repeated by only one other British newspaper. Stewart Lee uses the phrase "crumpet man's thinker" in his stand up, referring to Andrew Graham Dixon. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Thinking man's/woman's crumpet」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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