单词 | security-grinder |
释义 | > as lemmassecurity-grinder ΚΠ 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. 1828 Ld. Holland in R. Wyatt Deb. Both Houses (1829) 127 Should any security-grinder, as they have been termed,..endeavour to transfer it [sc. the bill]..from office to seats of Parliament..I should earnestly and strenuously resist it. 1844 Tait's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 259/2 We are not going to be mystified with any show of compromise or half-way concession... The Catholic-priest-endowment men, the ‘security-grinders’ of all sorts and degrees are left without a hope. < as lemmas |
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