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单词 to cross the floor
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to cross the floor
Politics. to cross the floor: (esp. in a parliamentary system) to vote against one's own party, or leave one's party to join another; (in extended use) to change sides on an issue, to reverse one's opinion or position. [From the practice whereby, in a chamber where government and opposition parties sit opposite and facing each other, members of parliament literally cross the floor to sit on the other side, either to join another party or (in some countries) to vote against their own.]
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the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > reversal of or forsaking one's will or purpose > reverse or abandon one's purpose [verb (intransitive)] > desert one's party or principles
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revert?a1525
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to turn (one's) tippet1546
revolt1549
shrink1553
to turn one's coat1565
to come over1576
apostate1596
to change (one's) sides1596
defect1596
renegade1611
to change foot1618
to run over1643
to face about1645
apostatize1648
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rat1810
to cross the floor1822
turncoat1892
to take (the) soup1907
turn1977
1822 Parl. Deb. 2nd Ser. 6 1126 By the single circumstance of his having crossed the floor, with his friends, the country has still to pay 1,500,000l. a year, the amount of the salt tax. But a very little while ago, the doctor was the champion for the repeal of the salt tax.
1943 C. Headlam Diary 1 Nov. in S. Ball Parl. & Politics in Age Churchill & Attlee (1999) xi. 389 Mr Quintin Hogg has denied that he proposes to cross the floor of the House—this must be a great relief to every true blue Tory!
1956 N.Z. Parl. Deb. 316 649/1 I take it as a personal insult that an Opposition member should suggest that anyone on this side is capable of crossing the floor. We are 100 per cent true to the Labour Government.
1994 Toronto Star 30 July c4/2 Holden crossed the floor of the assembly to join the PQ last year.
2011 Daily Tel. 27 Jan. (Business section) b1/4 A senior Bank of England policymaker has crossed the floor to call for an interest rate rise.
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