英语词汇“to vote with one's wallet”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

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P1. Originally and chiefly U.S. vote early and (vote) often: used humorously or ironically to imply cheating during elections.

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1856 Boston Daily Atlas 13 Nov. ‘Did ye vote yesterday, Michael?’ ‘Sure I did, according to the instructions.’ ‘An' what were the instructions?’ ‘Didn't you hear them?—vote early and often’.

1952 Irish Times 9 Sept. 3/5 Mr. Neill said that the old slogan of ‘Vote early and vote often’ was accepted as what one's opponent was trying to achieve.

2013 E. C. Hoffman Amer. Umpire v. 137 Party machines organized voters and encouraged immigrants to ‘vote early and often’.

P2. to vote with one's wallet and variants.Variants include to vote with one's chequebook, to vote with one's money and (chiefly in North American use) to vote with one's dollars, to vote with one's pocketbook, etc.

a. To vote for a political party, policy, etc., that is likely to serve one's own financial interests; to vote based on economic reasoning.

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1916 Chicago Tribune 6 Dec. The farmer votes with his pocketbook. He is not liberal in supporting measures for the public good.

1965 Daily Plainsman (Huron, S. Dakota) 5 Feb. If we all voted with our checkbooks instead of our consciences we would have no airport, water plant, schools or fire trucks.

1984 Economist 29 Sept. 33/1 The conventional wisdom is that Americans..will be voting with their wallets and voting Republican.

2019 Times (Nexis) 7 Sept. 56 There is a much-cited dictum that people vote with their wallets. Hence politicians tend to focus on personal finance—income tax, stamp duty and pensions—in the lead-up to a general election.

b. To indicate one's opinion about particular products, services, suppliers, etc., by choosing what to buy and where to shop.

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1948 Clearing House 23 48/2 What people vote for with their pocketbooks is what they really want. They undoubtedly want such unrealistic things as Santa Claus and modern advertising.

1969 Daily Mail 12 Nov. 1/1 Even now people are voting for colour [television] with their wallets.

1983 Amer. Banker (Nexis) 19 Aug. 40 Consumers vote with their dollars in the marketplace.

2019 Scotsman (Nexis) 18 Apr. When you're shopping, vote with your wallets by championing ethical brands.

P3. to vote with one's feet: to indicate an opinion by one's presence in or absence from a place, institution, or activity.

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the mind > will > free will > choice or choosing > expression of choice by some approved method > express choice [verb (intransitive)] > by presence or absence

to vote with one's feet1923

1923 Bakersfield Californian 18 June (6 o'clock ed.) 5/3 Did you not see that the Moujik voted against war?.. He voted with his feet... He ran away from the front.

1972 M. Jones Life on Dole vii. 56 Welshmen, in fact, were voting with their feet against the hopelessness that surrounded them. Those who were qualified scattered themselves across England.

1985 Times 7 Jan. 15/1 With another 16,000 to 20,000 miners returning to work an effective majority would have voted with its feet to end the strike.

2019 Advertiser (Austral.) (Nexis) 2 Jan. (Letters section) 24 I am intrigued by the claim that South Australians ‘voted with their feet’ in favour of Boxing Day shopping.

P4. Originally and chiefly North American: to vote at the box office: to indicate one's interest in a film, concert, etc., by purchasing a ticket to see it. [Compare the following for slightly earlier currency of a variant of the phrase:

1924 People's Home Jrnl. Spet. 3/2 You have another vote to-day—the vote you make at the box-office of your local picture theater and which you induce others to make.

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1925 Educ. Screen June 363/2 Vote at the Box Office by refusing to see objectionable films. The manager needs you, and if you support the good pictures and refuse to patronize the bad ones, he will soon give you the kind of pictures you want.

1970 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 26 Sept. 23/1 They said its auditorium was poorly designed—dead acoustics, too many seats too distant. But the audiences, voting at the box-office, have continued to come for almost 40 weeks of every season.

1982 Ovation Jan. 7/1 In an age of hype, Leontyne Price stands for quality... It took a few years..but audiences who heard her voted at the box office: they would never be deprived of that voice or, for reasons of race, of any voice of good quality.

2006 Detroit Free Press 29 Jan. k1/2 On the rare occasions when art and popular entertainment merge, as they so happily did with ‘The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King’, Oscar voters are thrilled to second a public that votes at the box office.

P5. transitive chiefly U.S. to vote (a person or thing) off the island: to dismiss, reject, or exclude someone or something. Popularized by Survivor, a U.S. reality television programme (first broadcast in 2000) in which a group of competitors attempt to survive with limited resources in an isolated location (originally an island), with one person being voted off the competition by the rest of the group every episode.

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2000 N.Y. Times 25 June (Sunday Styles section) 5/6 Courtney Sale Ross has replaced Ira Rennert..as the newest problem member of the Hamptons mogul tribe. ‘She wants to build a big institute in the woods... We would love to vote her off the island.’

2019 @ZacTriesToRead 17 Mar. in twitter.com (accessed 9 Apr. 2019) Microsoft Word is the worst. I say we vote it off the island.

单词	to vote with one's wallet
释义	> as lemmas to vote with one's wallet Phrases P1. Originally and chiefly U.S. vote early and (vote) often: used humorously or ironically to imply cheating during elections. ΚΠ 1856 Boston Daily Atlas 13 Nov. ‘Did ye vote yesterday, Michael?’ ‘Sure I did, according to the instructions.’ ‘An' what were the instructions?’ ‘Didn't you hear them?—vote early and often’. 1952 Irish Times 9 Sept. 3/5 Mr. Neill said that the old slogan of ‘Vote early and vote often’ was accepted as what one's opponent was trying to achieve. 2013 E. C. Hoffman Amer. Umpire v. 137 Party machines organized voters and encouraged immigrants to ‘vote early and often’. P2. to vote with one's wallet and variants.Variants include to vote with one's chequebook, to vote with one's money and (chiefly in North American use) to vote with one's dollars, to vote with one's pocketbook, etc. a. To vote for a political party, policy, etc., that is likely to serve one's own financial interests; to vote based on economic reasoning. ΚΠ 1916 Chicago Tribune 6 Dec. The farmer votes with his pocketbook. He is not liberal in supporting measures for the public good. 1965 Daily Plainsman (Huron, S. Dakota) 5 Feb. If we all voted with our checkbooks instead of our consciences we would have no airport, water plant, schools or fire trucks. 1984 Economist 29 Sept. 33/1 The conventional wisdom is that Americans..will be voting with their wallets and voting Republican. 2019 Times (Nexis) 7 Sept. 56 There is a much-cited dictum that people vote with their wallets. Hence politicians tend to focus on personal finance—income tax, stamp duty and pensions—in the lead-up to a general election. b. To indicate one's opinion about particular products, services, suppliers, etc., by choosing what to buy and where to shop. ΚΠ 1948 Clearing House 23 48/2 What people vote for with their pocketbooks is what they really want. They undoubtedly want such unrealistic things as Santa Claus and modern advertising. 1969 Daily Mail 12 Nov. 1/1 Even now people are voting for colour [television] with their wallets. 1983 Amer. Banker (Nexis) 19 Aug. 40 Consumers vote with their dollars in the marketplace. 2019 Scotsman (Nexis) 18 Apr. When you're shopping, vote with your wallets by championing ethical brands. P3. to vote with one's feet: to indicate an opinion by one's presence in or absence from a place, institution, or activity. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > free will > choice or choosing > expression of choice by some approved method > express choice [verb (intransitive)] > by presence or absence to vote with one's feet1923 1923 Bakersfield Californian 18 June (6 o'clock ed.) 5/3 Did you not see that the Moujik voted against war?.. He voted with his feet... He ran away from the front. 1972 M. Jones Life on Dole vii. 56 Welshmen, in fact, were voting with their feet against the hopelessness that surrounded them. Those who were qualified scattered themselves across England. 1985 Times 7 Jan. 15/1 With another 16,000 to 20,000 miners returning to work an effective majority would have voted with its feet to end the strike. 2019 Advertiser (Austral.) (Nexis) 2 Jan. (Letters section) 24 I am intrigued by the claim that South Australians ‘voted with their feet’ in favour of Boxing Day shopping. P4. Originally and chiefly North American: to vote at the box office: to indicate one's interest in a film, concert, etc., by purchasing a ticket to see it. [Compare the following for slightly earlier currency of a variant of the phrase: 1924 People's Home Jrnl. Spet. 3/2 You have another vote to-day—the vote you make at the box-office of your local picture theater and which you induce others to make. ] ΚΠ 1925 Educ. Screen June 363/2 Vote at the Box Office by refusing to see objectionable films. The manager needs you, and if you support the good pictures and refuse to patronize the bad ones, he will soon give you the kind of pictures you want. 1970 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 26 Sept. 23/1 They said its auditorium was poorly designed—dead acoustics, too many seats too distant. But the audiences, voting at the box-office, have continued to come for almost 40 weeks of every season. 1982 Ovation Jan. 7/1 In an age of hype, Leontyne Price stands for quality... It took a few years..but audiences who heard her voted at the box office: they would never be deprived of that voice or, for reasons of race, of any voice of good quality. 2006 Detroit Free Press 29 Jan. k1/2 On the rare occasions when art and popular entertainment merge, as they so happily did with ‘The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King’, Oscar voters are thrilled to second a public that votes at the box office. P5. transitive chiefly U.S. to vote (a person or thing) off the island: to dismiss, reject, or exclude someone or something. Popularized by Survivor, a U.S. reality television programme (first broadcast in 2000) in which a group of competitors attempt to survive with limited resources in an isolated location (originally an island), with one person being voted off the competition by the rest of the group every episode. ΚΠ 2000 N.Y. Times 25 June (Sunday Styles section) 5/6 Courtney Sale Ross has replaced Ira Rennert..as the newest problem member of the Hamptons mogul tribe. ‘She wants to build a big institute in the woods... We would love to vote her off the island.’ 2019 @ZacTriesToRead 17 Mar. in twitter.com (accessed 9 Apr. 2019) Microsoft Word is the worst. I say we vote it off the island. extracted from votev. < as lemmas
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