| 单词 | to vote the straight ticket |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto vote the straight ticket a. Unmixed, undiluted; of spirits, ‘neat’. Also qualifying a designation of a political party: Strict, rigid, extreme. to vote the straight ticket: to vote for all the official candidates of one's party; also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > state or quality of being simple, unmixed, or uncompounded > [adjective] shirec888 unmengedeOE mereeOE perfecta1393 unmeddleda1425 impermixta1475 unmingled1545 unpermixedc1545 sincere1546 unintermixed1595 immixt1622 untinct1646 single-fold1651 meracious1657 beaten1670 simple1818 pure1831 straight1856 the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > [adjective] > neat neat1578 naked1824 straight1856 the world > relative properties > wholeness > state or quality of being simple, unmixed, or uncompounded > [adjective] > composed of one part > specifically of immaterial things uncompounded1650 direct1668 square1804 straight1856 society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > groups or attitudes right to left > [adjective] > extreme high?1535 ultra1820 hard right1846 straight1856 extremist1907 extremistic1921 loony1977 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)] > vote in specific way to vote plump1742 plump1806 to split one's (or the) ticket or ballot1842 to vote the straight ticket1856 repeat1876 1856 N.Y. Courier & Enquirer Sept. The present candidate of the straight Whigs for the Vice-Presidency. 1857 N.Y. Times 14 Oct. The straight Republican Convention is to meet to-morrow. 1862 J. R. Morris in Congr. Globe 7 July 3158/3 I supported the straight Democratic ticket. 1865 Visct. Milton & W. B. Cheadle N.-W. Passage by Land (1867) ii. 33 As a Yankee would express it, they were geese and ducks ‘straight’—i.e., without anything else whatever. 1873 C. G. Leland Egyptian Sketch-bk. 146 Pains have been taken to add ornament, though every other structure near it be of mud ‘straight’—or unmingled and plain. 1874 Hotten's Slang Dict. (rev. ed.) 312 Straight, an American phrase peculiar to dram-drinkers; similar to our word neat. 1879 A. W. Tourgée Fool's Errand vii. 28 I allers did like my liquor clar,—clar an' straight. 1892 W. Pike Barren Ground N. Canada 128 We had bread at every meal, which is in itself a luxury after four months of straight meat. 1901 W. Churchill Crisis viii. 432 Stephen had never learned to like straight whiskey. 1934 J. O'Hara Appointment in Samarra (1935) vi. 171 You want ginger ale with yours, or straight? 1940 H. G. Wells Babes in Darkling Wood ii. iii. 194 She'll give up the ice, I expect, and settle down to straight Martini and gin. 1950 ‘D. Divine’ King of Fassarai xv. 119 ‘I'd like a coke.’.. ‘Little rum in it?’.. ‘Straight coke.’ 1977 M. Hinxman One-way Cemetery xx. 146 She handed him his glass. ‘Soda?’ ‘Straight.’ 1979 Guardian 30 Oct. 10/4 People who vote the straight green ticket—rucksacks, sperm whales, recycling, and free-range hens. < as lemmas |
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