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单词 security-grinder
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security-grinder
security-grinder n. Obsolete an assiduous deviser of securities or guarantees.Only in or with reference to the speeches of George Canning (1770–1827), British prime minister, who used the phrase in response to demands for ‘securities’ and safeguards by opponents of Catholic Emancipation during the Emancipation debates.
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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.
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