单词 | to go to the country |
释义 | > as lemmasto go (also appeal) to the country P4. British. to go (also appeal) to the country: to test public opinion by dissolving Parliament and holding a general election. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > [verb (intransitive)] > appeal to parliamentary electors to go (also appeal) to the country1791 mainstreet1966 1791 Parl. Reg. 1781–96 XXX. 91 He would assert, that a more idle.., unjust clamour never existed; and he appealed to that House, and could appeal to the country at large, whether that administration had..given the world the smallest grounds to form such an idea. 1845 B. Disraeli Sybil I. i. vi. 86 What with church and corn together, and the Queen Dowager, we may go to the country with as good a cry as some other persons. 1865 H. Kingsley Hillyars & Burtons lix It became necessary for James Oxton to go to the country..He [sc. the Governor] dissolved the assembly and sent James Oxton to the country. 1890 Illustr. London News 12 Apr. 450/1 The cry of a ‘cheap breakfast table’ would no longer be one ‘to go to the country with’. 1950 C. P. Stacey in G. W. Brown Canada vi. 135 In the autumn of 1917 Sir Robert Borden formed a union Government of Conservatives and conscriptionist Liberals which appealed to the country in December. 1970 P. Berton National Dream iii. vi. 143 When Mackenzie went to the country early in 1874, he was returned with a landslide. 2000 P. Thody Europe since 1945 vii. 135 Callaghan's decision not to go to the country proved fatal to the fortunes of the Labour Party. < as lemmas |
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