| 单词 | my right honourable friend |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmy right honourable friend my right honourable friend n. used to address or refer to another member of one's own party in the House of Commons who is also a privy counsellor (cf. Right Honourable adj. 2, privy counsellor n. 2a). ΚΠ 1742 Hist. & Proc. House of Commons X. 95 I am..glad of having one Opportunity of speaking on the same Side of the Question with my right honourable Friend. 1792 Deb. Abolition Slave-Trade 47 Let it not be thought, Sir, either of my Right Honourable Friend who sits near me, or of myself, that it was for our own sakes that we went into that minute detail. 1827 G. Canning Speech 6 Mar. (1828) VI. 155 I assure my right honourable friend..that I am perfectly ready to vote for securities; but I am not to be set down as a security-grinder. 1910 G. K. Chesterton What's Wrong with World (1913) ii. iv. 106 Names are forbidden [in the House of Commons], and a man must call his own father ‘my right honourable friend the member for West Birmingham’. 2009 Tamworth Herald (Nexis) 19 Nov. 4 Addressing the Prime Minister..Mr Jenkins said: ‘My right honourable Friend will be aware of the recent discovery in Staffordshire of the largest collection of Anglo Saxon gold ever found.’ < as lemmas |
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