| 单词 | political football |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspolitical football political football n. a subject of contentious political debate; an issue not resolved by succeeding governments. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > [noun] > a contentious political subject political football1833 1833 Essex Standard 9 Nov. Out-generalled by every petty state that choses [sic] to make it worth its while to deceive us—the political football of Europe—England. 1841 Congressional Globe 30 Jan. 119/1 These lands were nothing but a bone of contention—a political football, bandied about first by one party and than the other. 1857 Bangor (Maine) Daily Whig & Courier 12 Oct. 2/2 Smart of the Belfast Free Press is laboring..to keep the temperance question as a political football. 1915 Mansfield (Ohio) News 30 Oct. 6/2 The proposed amendment..is offered so that agitators may not make the Ohio Constitution a political football. 1971 Financial Mail (Johannesburg) 26 Feb. 673/3 The whole question of new negotiations seems to have become a political football and little more. 2001 Independent 22 Mar. i. 16/7 Then it became a political football, kicked around for two decades. < as lemmas |
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