| 单词 | stroke of policy |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstroke of policy (or †politics) a. A vigorous attempt to attain some object; a measure, expedient, or device adopted for some purpose. Also stroke of policy (or †politics) (cf. sense 11b). stroke of business: see business n. Phrases 28. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [noun] > (a) means > available means or a resource > a device, contrivance, or expedient costOE craftOE custc1275 ginc1275 devicec1290 enginec1300 quaintisec1300 contrevurec1330 castc1340 knackc1369 findinga1382 wilea1400 conject14.. skiftc1400 policy?1406 subtilityc1410 policec1450 conjecturea1464 industry1477 invention1516 cunning1526 shift1530 compass1540 chevisance1548 trade1550 tour1558 fashion1562 invent?1567 expediment1571 trick1573 ingeny1588 machine1595 lock1598 contrival1602 contrivement1611 artifice1620 recipea1643 ingenuity1651 expedient1653 contrivance1661 excogitation1664 mechanism1669 expediency1683 stroke1699 spell1728 management1736 manoeuvre1769 move1794 wrinkle1817 dodge1842 jigamaree1847 quiff1881 kink1889 lurk1916 gadget1920 fastie1931 ploy1940 1699 T. Baker Refl. Learning xiv. 166 Isidor's Collection was the great and bold Stroke, which [etc.]. 1732 J. Arbuthnot Pract. Rules of Diet iv. 413 The greatest and most important Strokes for the Recovery of the Patient, must be made at the time of the Invasion, or first State of this Disease. 1769 E. Burke Observ. Late State Nation 56 He pays..some compliments to Lord Bute and Lord Despenser. But to the latter, this is, I suppose, but a civility to old acquaintance; to the former, a little stroke of politicks. 1822 J. Galt Provost xi. 85 Before the Michaelmas, I was..fully prepared to achieve a great stroke of policy for the future government of the town. 1850 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire I. iv. 207 This stroke of policy was not unsuccessful. 1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. ii. iii. 192 It is conceded by all, that that stroke of business on Brewer's part, in going down to the house that night to see how things looked, was the master-stroke. 1873 M. Arnold Lit. & Dogma iv. 108 For us,..Christianity [is] the greatest and happiest stroke ever yet made for human perfection. < as lemmas |
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