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

†a. Politics slang (originally and chiefly U.S.). To manipulate an election, esp. bringing in as voters persons not legally qualified to vote, or by voting oneself in this way; also to lay pipes. Cf. pipe-laying n. Obsolete. [Use of the word in this sense arises from a political scandal in 1838, in which the Common Council of New York brought in hundreds of labourers ostensibly to lay water pipes, but in reality so that they could vote, and hence keep the Council in power.]

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society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > proceedings at election > [verb (intransitive)] > practise electoral corruption

to lay pipes1840

1838 Amer. Monthly Mag. Mar. 279 He [sc. the political quidnunc] having..serious business on hand, perhaps the election of the next mayor..is engrossed by vast plans for the public good, probably..laying pipes in front of his own door.]

1840 N.Y. Herald 26 Oct. 2/1 A disposable force of 5000 men..who were put up to the highest bidder, and driven about from town to town like cattle, to the polls, voting as often as they could—and ‘laying pipe’ in every city and in every ward.

1861 London Rev. & Weekly Jrnl. 16 Feb. 169 The gentlemen who succeed in appropriating these small measures will be laying down very good ‘pipe’ for Leeds, Southampton, &c.

1893 Home Missionary Oct. 305 The Irish..who began by laying our water-pipes..now lay a different kind of pipe, and make our city government.

单词	to lay pipes
释义	> as lemmas to lay pipes †a. Politics slang (originally and chiefly U.S.). To manipulate an election, esp. bringing in as voters persons not legally qualified to vote, or by voting oneself in this way; also to lay pipes. Cf. pipe-laying n. Obsolete. [Use of the word in this sense arises from a political scandal in 1838, in which the Common Council of New York brought in hundreds of labourers ostensibly to lay water pipes, but in reality so that they could vote, and hence keep the Council in power.] ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > proceedings at election > [verb (intransitive)] > practise electoral corruption to lay pipes1840 1838 Amer. Monthly Mag. Mar. 279 He [sc. the political quidnunc] having..serious business on hand, perhaps the election of the next mayor..is engrossed by vast plans for the public good, probably..laying pipes in front of his own door.] 1840 N.Y. Herald 26 Oct. 2/1 A disposable force of 5000 men..who were put up to the highest bidder, and driven about from town to town like cattle, to the polls, voting as often as they could—and ‘laying pipe’ in every city and in every ward. 1861 London Rev. & Weekly Jrnl. 16 Feb. 169 The gentlemen who succeed in appropriating these small measures will be laying down very good ‘pipe’ for Leeds, Southampton, &c. 1893 Home Missionary Oct. 305 The Irish..who began by laying our water-pipes..now lay a different kind of pipe, and make our city government. extracted from pipen.¹ < as lemmas
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