| 单词 | coupon majority |
| 释义 | > as lemmascoupon majority 4. A recommendation given by a party leader to a parliamentary candidate. Also attributive, as coupon candidate, coupon election, coupon majority. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > [noun] > election by specific method prox1669 shouting1679 acclamation1885 coupon election1918 society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > [noun] > selection of candidates > recommendation by party leader coupon1918 ticket of leave1918 society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > [noun] > candidate > type of vote collector1888 coupon candidate1918 primarian1918 yellow dog1927 1918 Methodist Times 5 Dec. 7/2 Men whose tongues are tied by a pledge before they get their ‘ticket-of-leave’, or ‘coupon’, as it is contemptuously called, are being chosen for this English Reichstag by a secret cabal sitting in darkness. ‘Half-coupon men’ is the name bestowed on those who have not got the blessing, but are piteously bleating for it. 1919 G. B. Shaw Heartbreak House Pref. in Heartbreak House, Great Catherine, & Playlets of War p. xxxii Provided the leader will make their seats safe for them by the process which was called, in derisive reference to the war rationing system, ‘giving them the coupon’. 1919 G. B. Shaw Heartbreak House Pref. in Heartbreak House, Great Catherine, & Playlets of War p. xxxii The electorate..cast out all the coupon candidates at the earliest bye-elections. 1919 National Rev. Feb. 690 Mr. Lloyd George and his principal colleagues were finally ‘gingered up’ into giving the required pledges, which were infinitely more useful to Coalition candidates than Coalition ‘coupons’. 1920 H. Storey Case against Lloyd George Coalition 8 The Government..issued recommendations (it may be remembered that they were called ‘coupons’) to all candidates who accepted its pledge. 1925 F. W. Hirst From Adam Smith to Snowden 64 The Coalition continued with a huge ‘coupon’ majority ready to extend protective measures. 1932 J. A. Spender & C. Asquith Life of H. H. Asquith I. iv. 51 The ‘Coupon’ election of 1918. 1932 J. A. Spender & C. Asquith Life of H. H. Asquith II. lv. 316 The certificate took the form of a letter signed by the two leaders (which Asquith immortalised by dubbing it the ‘coupon’). 1945 Ann. Reg. 1944 92 The executive of the Labour Party..rejected uncompromisingly the idea of a ‘coupon’ election after the 1918 model. < as lemmas |
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