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单词 circular firing squad
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Definition of circular firing squad in English:

circular firing squad

noun
US
  • Used in reference to a situation in which a group of people are engaged in self-destructive internal conflicts and mutual recriminations.

    by Wednesday morning the party was preparing its traditional response to defeat: the circular firing squad
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The Democrats are panicking at the first hint of political difficulty and rushing to assemble a circular firing squad.
    • If I were a Democrat and I thought the Republicans were engaging in a circular firing squad, I would smile.
    • It's the radical right that will form a circular firing squad in an attempt to prevent his nomination.
    • Before we can fix our health care system we may very well need to fix our divided nation that increasingly resembles a circular firing squad.
    • Others have already started to form the usual circular firing squads, pointing their fingers at an unpopular president.
    • 52 votes in the bank without a question, yet we quibble over minutiae and form circular firing squads.
    • Go away before you turn this whole thread into a rehash of the Bolshevik-Trotskyite circular firing squads of the 1930s.
    • I really can't wait to see how this circular firing squad will play out in Nashville, repubs against repubs.
    • It is time for Republicans to think a bit more strategically, pick their battles, and disband the circular firing squads.
    • Even with the prospect of being able to win control of the Senate, some Republicans are busy manufacturing ammunition for their own circular firing squad.
 
 

Definition of circular firing squad in US English:

circular firing squad

noun
US
  • Used in reference to a situation in which a group of people are engaged in self-destructive internal conflicts and mutual recriminations.

    by Wednesday morning the party was preparing its traditional response to defeat: the circular firing squad
    Example sentencesExamples
    • 52 votes in the bank without a question, yet we quibble over minutiae and form circular firing squads.
    • Go away before you turn this whole thread into a rehash of the Bolshevik-Trotskyite circular firing squads of the 1930s.
    • Others have already started to form the usual circular firing squads, pointing their fingers at an unpopular president.
    • The Democrats are panicking at the first hint of political difficulty and rushing to assemble a circular firing squad.
    • It is time for Republicans to think a bit more strategically, pick their battles, and disband the circular firing squads.
    • It's the radical right that will form a circular firing squad in an attempt to prevent his nomination.
    • If I were a Democrat and I thought the Republicans were engaging in a circular firing squad, I would smile.
    • Before we can fix our health care system we may very well need to fix our divided nation that increasingly resembles a circular firing squad.
    • Even with the prospect of being able to win control of the Senate, some Republicans are busy manufacturing ammunition for their own circular firing squad.
    • I really can't wait to see how this circular firing squad will play out in Nashville, repubs against repubs.
 
 
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