Stepford Wives – Blog EBE https://englishbookgeorgia.com/blogebg English Book Education Mon, 24 Nov 2014 09:10:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://englishbookgeorgia.com/blogebg/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/cropped-English-Book-Education-Symbol-02-32x32.png Stepford Wives – Blog EBE https://englishbookgeorgia.com/blogebg 32 32 Interesting Words and Expressions – Stepford Wife https://englishbookgeorgia.com/blogebg/interesting-words-and-expressions-stepford-wife/ Thu, 03 Jul 2014 07:37:45 +0000 http://englishbookgeorgia.com/blogebg/?p=1280 The expression “Stepford Wife” is used to describe a woman who does not behave or think in an independent way, always following the accepted rules of society and obeying her husband without thinking. Origin: From the title of the book and a movie “The Stepford Wives”, in which a group of women who behave in this way are in fact robots. Source: The Little Book of Word Origins, Oxford University Press

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