"A white knight" nghĩa là gì?

Liệu đây có phải chàng hiệp sĩ trong truyền thuyết? Photo by Kayla Koss on Unsplash

"A white knight" = hiệp sĩ trắng -> nghĩa là người cứu giúp bạn hoặc người cứu một công ty đang có nguy cơ bị mua lại quyền kiểm soát bởi một công ty khác. "White night" có thể dùng để chỉ một tổ chức, công ty hoặc cá nhân có kế hoạch giúp đỡ tổ chức, công ty hay cá nhân khác.

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“I never thought the governor could be the white knight of the real estate ( bất động sản) industry,” one person who was on the June 12 call said Thursday. “Anybody who did was naive.”

The Swedish group led by Greek-Swedish entrepreneur Elias Georgiadis has the role of the white knight for the Greek corporation, which required protection from its creditors (chủ nợ) in the context of the bankruptcy code.

Like a white knight riding into battle to rally its troops in disarray (hỗn loạn), Memorial Day is coming, just in a nick of time. Giving us a respite (nghi ngơi) from all the bickering about the how’s and why’s of the coronavirus, and who’s to blame.

Farrow — the son of Woody Allen and Mia Farrow — became the white knight of the #MeToo movement in 2017 with his explosive reporting on Weinstein and others. Weinstein, 68, partly thanks to Farrow and the brave women who came forward, was effectively sentenced (kế án) to life in a New York state prison in March.

Thu Phương

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