单词 | peanut politician |
释义 | > as lemmaspeanut politician peanut politician n. U.S. colloquial a practitioner of peanut politics. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > politician > [noun] > small-minded or parochial folk-mooter1645 peanut politician1888 parish pumper1905 1888 N.Y. Times 18 Mar. 10/5 The business men of the country, who are the greatest sufferers from the peanut politicians' ways, must arise and assert themselves. 1931 W. G. McAdoo Crowded Years xii. 191 Any Democratic Cabinet, if not actually deficient mentally, consists of adolescents and small peanut politicians. 2002 Omaha (Nebraska) World Herald (Nexis) 17 Feb. 11 b That kind of language neither added to nor detracted from Lay's reputation but made a U.S. senator sound like a peanut politician. < as lemmas |
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