Greenback party
US Politics (now historical )
noun
A party which opposed the shift back to gold-based currency and advocated government control of the monetary system, with greenbacks as the sole currency.
- The party later merged with another and changed its name to the Greenback-Labor party..
Origin
Late 19th century; earliest use found in The New York Times.
- have one foot in the grave
- have one over the eight
- have one's day in court
- have one's hands full
- have one's hands tied
- have one's head screwed on (the right way)
- have one's heart in one's mouth
- have one's heart in the right place
- have one's nose in a book
- have one's (or its) moments
- have one's way with
- have one's will
- have one's work cut out
- have one too many
- have only oneself to blame
- rubicund
- rubicundity
- rubidium
- rubidium–strontium
- rubidium–strontium dating
- rubifacient
- rubifaction
- rubification
- rubified
- rubify