英语词汇“to break the slate”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

> as lemmas

to break the slate

c. to break the slate: to refuse to allow one's name to stand as candidate for some office. (See slate n.¹ 2c.) Also transferred. U.S.

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1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. II. iii. lxiii. 458 The list so settled is now a State, unless some discontented magnate objects and threatens to withdraw. To do so is called ‘breaking the slate’.

1888 A. C. Gunter Mr. Potter xxii It's a desperate dodge, but I think it'll break the slate!

1888 A. C. Gunter Mr. Potter xxiii Her emissary had destroyed the document, though he'd left the wrapper whole, and so I tricked her and busted the slate!]

extracted from breakv.

as lemmas

单词	to break the slate
释义	> as lemmas to break the slate c. to break the slate: to refuse to allow one's name to stand as candidate for some office. (See slate n.¹ 2c.) Also transferred. U.S. ΚΠ 1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. II. iii. lxiii. 458 The list so settled is now a State, unless some discontented magnate objects and threatens to withdraw. To do so is called ‘breaking the slate’. 1888 A. C. Gunter Mr. Potter xxii It's a desperate dodge, but I think it'll break the slate! 1888 A. C. Gunter Mr. Potter xxiii Her emissary had destroyed the document, though he'd left the wrapper whole, and so I tricked her and busted the slate!] extracted from breakv. < as lemmas
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