The phrase
"as a badge of honor" is an idiomatic expression that means to wear, display or use something as evidence of one's achievement, courage, or distinction.
Full definition
Why is it that you are willing to wear your
faith as a badge of honor, even to the extent of making claims you can not even begin to confirm?
Those sympathetic to the false narrative saw the red
flag as a badge of honor, clicking and sharing any way rather than allowing someone else to tell them they're wrong.
The number of followers one has on Twitter is often
seen as a badge of honor, especially for an individual who isn't necessarily a celebrity to begin with.
In fact, in many ways, Kalanick wears the characterization
almost as a badge of honor — proof of his zeal and dedication to his mission: to drastically disrupt what he considers a very broken transportation system.
Not surprisingly, the Paladino campaign took the Times swipe
as a badge of honor instead of a slight, immediately slamming (via Twitter) «liberal lobbyist» Lazio for receiving the support of the «ultra-liberal» newspaper.
«There's a danger that people who are disinclined to trust traditional sources of information will treat Facebook's
warnings as a badge of honor,» writes Kaveh Waddell.
Aggrandizing long service, referring to «godfathers,» compounds this renewal problem and wearing
as a badge of honor how many boards one has served on, or does serve on.
But the downgrades pose fresh challenges for Europe's political leaders, particularly President Nicolas Sarkozy of France, who is expected to run for re-election this spring and had long cited his country's AAA credit
rating as a badge of honor.
The problem Pedro, is that you, and the other fundiot nutters purposefully choose to be ignorant, and you wear that
ignorance as a badge of honor.
it amazes me that religious folk see this word
as a badge of honor while any logical thinking person sees it as a mark of foolishness or insanity.
And not as a perpetual temptation or sparring partner so
much as a badge of honor, proof that we're intellectually rigorous, honest, and thoughtful — not the mindless automatons the world thinks we are.
It would easy to point to the Eagles» four turnovers
Sunday as a badge of honor — as in they were able to give the ball back to the Texans four times (minus - 3 differential) and STILL come away with a double - digit win.
Option # 2: After years of wearing busy -
ness as a badge of honor, Betty wakes up one day and realizes that all the joy, passion and enthusiasm she had for her business has evaporated.
The grimy feeling of my college years, which I once
prized as a badge of honor, now felt unsavory enough to churn my (spinach - filled) stomach.
We often wear our
DOMS as a badge of honor and believe that if we're not sore, we're not doing enough during out workouts.
This is a dour and deeply unpleasant film that wears its gritty
realism as a badge of honor, while failing to recognize the motivations that explain such behavior in reality, which makes him neither an attentive journalist nor a particularly good storyteller (at least not yet).