knit yoghurt

Humorous conflation of knitting and yoghurt-making, two hobbies popular among groups who support sustainability and self-sufficiency.

knit yoghurt (third-person singular simple present knits yoghurt, present participle knitting yoghurt, simple past and past participle knitted yoghurt)

1. (humorous, sometimes derogatory) To behave in a left-wing or hippie fashion; an imagined activity among left-wing and hippie groups.
   • 2004, William Venator, Vestiges of Freedom, WritersPrintShop, →ISBN, page 69:

     Keep off hugging organic trees while doing GM-free yoga and knitting yoghurt, and I'll be happy.

   • 2005, Stephen Price, Monkey Man, New Island Books:

     Certainly, there's no shortage of tree-huggers in magical, mystical Ireland, but mostly they're foreign nationals who stay over West, behaving themselves, doing up cottages, knitting yoghurt and stuff.

   • 2012, Shirley Wells, Dying Art, Harlequin, →ISBN, page 146:

     He didn't look as if he knitted yoghurt for one thing. He looked too sensible and respectable to have anything in common with Dylan's dope-smoking mother.

   • 2013, Joanna Nadin, The Life of Riley, Oxford University Press - Children, →ISBN:

     Mum is going to join the Greens instead. Dad says at least they are all so busy knitting yoghurt they do not have time for sexual scandal.

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