| 单词 | to keep a house | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasto keep a House  e.   Politics.  to keep a House: to secure the presence of enough members to maintain a quorum in a parliamentary house (see sense  A. 5a). Cf. to make a House at make v.1 17b. Now rare. ΚΠ 1790    Parl. Reg. 1781–96 XXVII. 18  				They would find it as difficult to make a quorum as it had been to keep a House. 1892    Chambers's Jrnl. 20 Feb. 114/2  				Those who remain..for the sake of ‘keeping a house’. 1924    Times 14 Jan. 18  				How was a Labour Government to succeed in highly controversial matters in keeping a house? 2010    United News of India 		(Nexis)	 10 Feb.  				He..said the functioning of parliamentary democracy depended on how the whips shoulder responsibilities. Whips ‘make and keep’ a House. < as lemmas  | 
	
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