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kitchen cabinet orig. U.S.
[f. kitchen n. + cabinet.]
1. Politics. A group of unofficial advisers (orig. of the President of the U.S.A.), popularly believed to have greater influence than the actual Cabinet (or the elected representatives, etc.). Hence, a private or unofficial group of advisers to the holder of an elected office.
1832W. S. Archer Let. 8 July in A. C. Cole Whig Party in South (1913) 13 If there be no other mode of preventing its being given to the most despicable of all the Protegees of the Kitchen Cabinet. 1842Ainsworth's Mag. Dec. 554 We will hurl the kitchen cabinet tyrants from their stools. 1860J. Parton Life A. Jackson III. xvi. 183 These were the gentlemen—Lewis, Green, Hill and Kendall—who, at the beginning of the new administration, were supposed to have most of the President's ear and confidence, and were stigmatized by the opposition as the Kitchen Cabinet. 1893‘Mark Twain’ in Century Mag. Dec. 237 Her master left a couple of dollars lying unprotected on his desk... She covered the tempter with a book, and another member of the kitchen cabinet got it. 1904N.Y. Herald 14 Sept. 5 The kitchen cabinet is a development of the ascendency of Governor Odell in republican affairs. It consists of the body guard of his closest friends and advisers. 1952Manch. Guardian Weekly 27 Nov. 3 Mr. Brownell is part of the Dewey ‘kitchen cabinet’. 1969Guardian 21 Mar. 1/1 Key policy decisions were being taken by the Prime Minister and a kind of ‘Kitchen Cabinet’ of intimates. 1975Times Lit. Suppl. 23 May 576/4 Every ruler operates on two levels, the personal and the official, that is, he has a kitchen cabinet and a body of ministers.
2. A cabinet for domestic and culinary utensils, etc., in a kitchen.
1895Montgomery Ward Catal. 607/1 Kitchen Cabinets. Very useful about a house where a ‘shortage’ of closets or cupboards is felt. Ibid. 612/1 Kitchen Cabinet Table... Has a molding board, spice and cutlery drawer, sugar and groceries drawer, flour drawer..and a cupboard for cooking utensils. 1911Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 29 Apr. 4/4 (Advt.), These Kitchen Cabinets have revolutionized labor-saving in the kitchen of today. 1922S. Lewis Babbitt vi. 68 Babbitt picked up his partner..at his kitchen-cabinet works. 1933Discovery July 219/2 Most houses and flats are fitted as a matter of course with kitchen cabinets and refrigerators, hanging cupboards in bedrooms and so on. 1972M. J. Bosse Incident at Naha 14 The sugar bowl would have gone back into a kitchen cabinet. |