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symbolic gesture
释义
Example sentences
symbolic gesture
The vote was only a
symbolic
gesture
.
The Sun
(
2011
)
The move to withdraw from the IMF and the World Bank is largely a
symbolic
gesture
.
Times, Sunday Times
(
2007
)
Many of the most powerful
symbolic
gestures
have taken place on the field of play.
Times, Sunday Times
(
2014
)
See
empty gesture
Definition of 'symbolic'
symbolic
(
sɪmb
ɒ
lɪk
)
Explore 'symbolic' in the dictionary
adjective
If you describe an event, action, or procedure as symbolic, you mean that it represents an important change, although it has little practical effect.
symbolically
(
sɪmb
ɒ
lɪkli
)
adverb
[
ADVERB
adjective
]
COBUILD Collocations
symbolic gesture
dramatic gesture
empty gesture
futile gesture
generous gesture
grand gesture
hand gesture
obscene gesture
romantic gesture
rude gesture
symbolic gesture
token gesture
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put one over on
put one over on someone
put one's back into
put-ones-back-into
put one's best foot forward
put-ones-best-foot-forward
put one's bottom dollar on
put one's cards on the table
put one's feet up
put one's finger on
put one's finger on sth
put one's foot down
put one's foot in it
put one's hand to the plough
put one's head above the parapet/keep one's head below the parapet
put-ones-head-above-the-parapet-keep-ones-head-below-the-parapet
put one's head in a noose
put one's house in order
put one's money where one's mouth is
put one's oar in
put one's shirt on
put one's shoulder to the wheel
put-ones-signature-to-something
put one's signature to sth
putonghua
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