| 单词 | friend of the people |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfriend of the people friend of the people n. a person considered as having, or purporting to have, the interests of the public at heart; = people's friend n. at people n. Compounds 3b. ΚΠ a1641 J. Everard Some Gospel-treasures Opened (1653) 665 They [sc. the Athenians] had a strange way..[of] calling things and persons by their contraries; as to call their common Hangman, the..Friend of the people. 1675 H. Neville tr. N. Machiavelli Hist. Florence in Wks. iii. 61 Many other acts of beneficence to several Citizens, and friends of the people. 1731 W. Arnall Case of Opposition Stated 3 The Power of the State is at present employed against the Friends of the People. 1792 F. Burney Jrnls. & Lett. (1972) II. 2 The pretended Friends of the People..wait but the stilling the present ferment of loyalty to come forth. 1804 H. H. Brackenridge Mod. Chivalry II. ii. iii. 130 But the people-pleaser is not always the friend of the people. 1886 N. Amer. Rev. Feb. 216 If I should ever be tempted to take a part in public affairs, it shall be simply as a friend of the people. 1988 P. Kantor & S. David Dependent City vii. 120 The three men resembled one another in that they won and held power through populist-style demagoguery, becoming outspoken ‘friends of the people’. 2012 Daily Record (Glasgow) (Nexis) 13 Mar. 3 His strength was that he was more than a good lawyer—he was a friend of the people and spoke their language. < as lemmas |
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