What is the meaning of “Teflon”?
(S. Mercy, Trichy) Teflon is a coating given to a pot or a pan to prevent food from sticking to it. Nowadays the word is being used with people as well. Jimmy Carter, for example, called Ronald Reagan a “Teflon President”. What he meant was, although there were a lot of scandals during Reagan’s Presidency, the President himself came out looking squeaky clean none of the mud that was being flung around ever stuck to him. Reagan had the ability to keep the criminal charges levelled against him from sticking just like the Teflon coated pan has the ability to keep food from sticking to it. * I call my cousin “Teflon Suma” because she is impervious to all criticism. * Janaki is one of those Teflon politicians I have absolute contempt for. S.
