babbitt

laakerimetalli, babbit, valkometalli

päällystää babbitilla, päällystää laakerimetallilla Babbitt metal.
puhekieltä To line with Babbitt metal to reduce friction.
A person who subscribes complacently to materialistic middle-class ideals
1927 Ira Gershwin, "The Babbit and the Bromide," from the stage musical "Funny Face" (1927). Lyrics collected in: Louis Kronenberger (2008) An Anthology of Light Verse, p234

A Babbitt met a Bromide on the avenue one day. They held a conversation in their own peculiar way.

One speaks of a babbitt habit, a babbitt era. Nothing is more true. America recognized itself in Babbitt, it demurred, but it also admired.

If there's one thing I can't stand, it's a Babbitt. Say, there's nothing more wonderful than defying middle-class conventions.

... a "babbitt" is a person full of self-confident bluster who is nevertheless a narrowminded philistine and a hypocrite.

Ira relished telling the story that Fred Astaire took him aside and said he knew what a babbitt was, but what was a bromide?

In this sense Harding was a Babbitt. Intellectuals and journalists rejected Harding as being as empty as the Sinclair Lewis character.