† ballotistn.
Obsolete.
An advocate of the (secret) ballot. Cf. balloteer n.
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the mind > will > free will > choice or choosing > expression of choice by some approved method > [noun] > secret voting > advocate of
ballot-man1793
balloteer1833
ballotist1837
1830 Monthly Rev. 15 433 Is not the system which this anti-ballotist would preserve, the worst that could possibly be devised?]
1837 S. Smith Wks. 771 Votes, sheltered (as the ballotists suppose) from intimidation.
1859 Times 18 Feb. 6/3 In this motley company we have now boisterous Ballotists, bellowing up silence, and exposing reserve in its nakedest condition.
1867 H. Romilly in Punishment of Death (1886) 293 Now the ballotists and the anti-ballotists stand opposed to each other in the following relative positions.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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n.1837- not to have a leg to stand on
- not to have a penny to bless oneself with
- not to have a penny to one's name
- not to have a pot to piss in
- not to have a pot to piss in nor a window to throw it from
- not to have a prayer
- not to have a scooby
- not to have a shirt
- not to have a sprat
- not to have a word to throw at a dog
- not to have a —— bone in one's body
- not to have all day
- not to have all one's buttons
- not to have all one's buttons on
- not to have any
- not to have any of it
- not to have any of that
- not to have any of this
- not to have any small talk
- not to have both oars in the water
- not to have got a prayer
- not to have got all one's buttons
- not to have got all one's buttons on
- not to have the foggiest
- not to have the foggiest idea