LITTLE RED BOOK, THE


Meaning of LITTLE RED BOOK, THE in English

ˌLittle Red ˈBook, The BrE AmE

a small book with a red cover, printed in China and containing many sayings from the speeches and writings of the Chinese leader ↑ Mao Zedong . It was read especially during the ↑ Cultural Revolution of the late 1960s, and at public meetings large crowds of people used to wave their copies of the Little Red Book.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.      Longman - Словарь современного английского языка.