单词 | re-rat |
释义 | > as lemmasre-rat re-rat v. Brit. /(ˌ)riːˈrat/ , U.S. /riˈræt/ ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > [verb (intransitive)] > desert one's party > for a second time re-rat1815 1815 C. Lemon Let. 18 Apr. in M. Frampton Jrnl. (1885) 246 If [Talleyrand] has refused to re-rat. 1975 D. W. S. Hunt On Spot iv. 54 As I heard him say over the lunch table once, ‘to rat is difficult; to re-rat..’ and he broke off as though to show that to find a description of a second change of party was beyond even his eloquence. 1995 Daily Tel. 9 Oct. 4/6 Other famous political defectors include Winston Churchill, who went from Conservative to Liberal in 1904 and then ‘re-ratted’ to go back into the Tory fold. < as lemmas |
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