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

a. transitive. Parliament. To record the vote of (a member of Parliament) when he or she is within the precincts of Westminster but has not passed through the voting lobby, esp. in the case of illness or disability. Also more fully to nod through the division (lobby).

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1965 Times 7 May 14/1 The whips have a civilized old practice whereby M.P.s who are so unfit or incapacitated that they cannot walk through the division lobby may be nodded for by the appropriate chief whip.]

1971 H. Wilson Labour Govt. vii. 99 There was morbid speculation on the question whether, if a member were to die at say 9.00 p.m., the Chief Whip would be justified in ‘nodding him through’ a ten o'clock division, while the ambulance was still on its way.

1975 Daily Tel. 19 July 2/6 Mr Wood, Conservative M P for Bridlington, who has a war disability, was ‘nodded through’ the division lobby after he had ‘paired’ with a Labour M P.

1996 Times 28 Feb. 8/8 The ambulance men escorted him in for a drink and the Tory whips nodded him through in the dining room.

单词	to nod through the division
释义	> as lemmas to nod through the division (lobby) a. transitive. Parliament. To record the vote of (a member of Parliament) when he or she is within the precincts of Westminster but has not passed through the voting lobby, esp. in the case of illness or disability. Also more fully to nod through the division (lobby). ΚΠ 1965 Times 7 May 14/1 The whips have a civilized old practice whereby M.P.s who are so unfit or incapacitated that they cannot walk through the division lobby may be nodded for by the appropriate chief whip.] 1971 H. Wilson Labour Govt. vii. 99 There was morbid speculation on the question whether, if a member were to die at say 9.00 p.m., the Chief Whip would be justified in ‘nodding him through’ a ten o'clock division, while the ambulance was still on its way. 1975 Daily Tel. 19 July 2/6 Mr Wood, Conservative M P for Bridlington, who has a war disability, was ‘nodded through’ the division lobby after he had ‘paired’ with a Labour M P. 1996 Times 28 Feb. 8/8 The ambulance men escorted him in for a drink and the Tory whips nodded him through in the dining room. extracted from nodv. < as lemmas
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