Brigitte Bardot

plural Brigitte Bardots

1. Someone or something very beautiful or desirable.

   ...who, in discussing the Puritan position, declared: ‘I want a Brigitte Bardot who can lead a Bible class’

   1994, J. I. Packer, A Quest for Godliness: The Puritan Vision of the Christian Life, page 268

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   I can claim no such dedication to duty since Christmas was passed way up the French Alps in a place where Brigitte Bardots are two-a-penny but horses a rarity.

   1974, The Spectator, volume 232, part 1, page 51

   […]performance swelled French national pride and excited the fancy of stock market speculators — it became “the Brigitte Bardot of French industry.”

   1980, Thomas N. Gladwin, Ingo Walter, Multinationals Under Fire: Lessons in the Management of Conflict, page 268

   Paris is the greatest food city in the world – the Rolls Royce, the Château d'Yquem, the Brigitte Bardot of gastronomic capitals.

   2009, Christina Palassio, Alana Wilcox, quoting Andrew Braithwaite, Toronto, je t'aime!, quoted in The Edible City: Toronto's Food from Farm to Fork, unnumbered page

2. AustraliainformalbusinessA back-to-back loan.

   This is a back-to-back loan, sometimes called BBs or Brigitte Bardots.

   1995, The Bulletin, numbers 5953-5959, page 77

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   These practices included back to back loans (in some quarters colloquially termed Brigitte Bardot′s from the initials B.B.),[…].

   1992 March 3, Michael Rozenes, “Prosecuting Regulatory Offenders”, in parliamentary debates