BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Tall Poppy
- a prominent member of society
Wiktionary Definition for: Tall Poppy
- # Australia A conspicuously successful person, especially one who attracts envious hostility.
Additional Resources
- Tall Trees, Tall Thinking and Tall Poppies
- A recent visit to Western Australia got me thinking about the impact of the tall poppy syndrome in innovation. While walking along the unique 40-metre-high platform in the Valley of the Giants (400-year-old Tingle Trees, some of the world's largest), I was impressed with the innovative...
- Blog posts 2008-05-04
- Tall Trees, Tall Thinking and Tall Poppies
- Tall Trees, Tall Thinking and Tall PoppiesTall poppy originsReaders may be interested to know that this incident derives from a story from the time of the Roman kings. Tarquinius Superbus needed to relate a message to his son Sextus, as to how to handle the local patricians in the...
- Discussion threads 2008-05-28
- Language of Oz fights the furphy
- SYDNEY, AFP — If a larrikin bashed a tall poppy from the big end of town and his mate dobbed him in, he might tell the police the identity was a shonky operator. The identity, no doubt, would try to hose it down as a furphy. A historian recently...
- Research articles 2005-08-04
- "Tall poppy" Rivkin in court.
- Dec 12, 2001 The Australian ABIX via COMTEX -- The flamboyant Australian businessman, Rene Rivkin, has faced court. On 11 December 2001, he faced a Sydney court on charges of insider trading in Qantas shares. Rivkin did not have to enter a plea and...
- Research articles 2001-12-11
- Rivkin takes stock as jail looms.
- May 01, 2003 (The Daily Telegraph - ABIX via COMTEX) Flamboyant Sydney-based stockbroker Rene Rivkin, who has been found guilty of insider trading, faces jail. Rivkin claimed, in a document published on his Internet web site, that he has been subjected to a "tall...
- Research articles 2003-05-01
- Chinese tall poppy ripe for the picking.
- Jun 02, 2003 (The Age - ABIX via COMTEX) In 2002, "Forbes" magazine named Zhou Zhengyi as the richest man in Shanghai, China. However, the Shanghai property developer has since fallen from grace. Zhou is under arrest, possibly in Beijing, and is being investigated...
- Research articles 2003-06-03
- NOW APPEARING
- Purple poppy mallow Callirhoe involucrata WHAT IS IT: A low-growing, drought-tolerant perennial, native to prairies stretching from the Great Plains westward into Colorado, Wyoming and Utah. Poppy mallow was selected in 1999 as a Plant Select winner by the Denver Botanic Gardens, Colorado State University...
- Research articles 2002-07-05
