单词 | to take the stump |
释义 | > as lemmasto take the stump b. Hence, ‘a place or an occasion of political oratory’ ( Cent. Dict.). to go on the stump, to take the stump: to go about the country making political speeches, whether as a candidate or as the advocate of a cause.In the U.S. the word ‘does not necessarily convey a derogatory implication’ ( Cent. Dict.). ‘In Britain, though now common, it is still felt to be somewhat undignified.’ ( N.E.D.) ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > [noun] > place or occasion of political oratory stump1816 the mind > language > speech > speech-making > make a speech [verb (intransitive)] > for particular occasion, purpose, or cause epitaph1606 vary1680 stump1839 to take the stump1868 spruik1894 to go on the stump1903 Limehouse1913 tub-thump1920 soap-box1926 society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > [verb (intransitive)] > indulge in political oratory to take the stump1868 1816 Debates in Congress (1854) 1169 I [a Virginian member] think his [a South Carolinian's] arguments are better calculated for what is called on this side of the river stump, than for this Committee. 1831 M. Carey New Olive Branch 17 Declaimers in the forum, or on stumps, or in newspapers. 1841 L. Bacon in Ess. Christian Ministry 84/2 All artifice and trick—all the devices of the stage and of the stump. 1866 J. R. Lowell President on Stump in Prose Wks. (1890) V. 264 Mr. Johnson is the first of our Presidents who has descended to the stump. 1868 J. Bright Addresses (1879) 76 We have seen the archbishops and bishops..doing what is described in America when they say a man has taken to the ‘stump’. 1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. II. lvi. 382 It is more by the stump than in any other way that an American statesman speaks to the people. 1892 Daily News 19 Dec. 2/3 If politicians took it up—‘put the gold dollar on the stump,’ as it is expressed—the trouble would be grievous. 1903 Sat. Rev. 7 Feb. 172 A Front Bencher goes on the stump in the provinces. < as lemmas |
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