metric martyr

British  

noun

1. a shopkeeper or trader willing to be prosecuted for continuing to use only imperial measures as a protest against the perceived imposition of metric measures by the European Union

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Example Sentences

But Nasa's Mars Climate Orbiter mission, launched in 1998, became the ultimate "metric martyr" when calculations in metric and Imperial standards got mixed up, putting it on the wrong trajectory as it was due to enter Mars orbit.

From BBC

North East Says No even had their own Nigel Farage, in "metric martyr" Neil Herron, a man-of-the-people market trader who had grabbed headlines with his campaign to protect imperial measures .

From BBC