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ˈlog-ˌrolling
[f. log n.1 + rolling vbl. n.]
1. U.S.
a. The action of rolling logs to any required spot; a meeting for co-operation in doing this.
1848Thoreau Maine W. (1894) 19 Occasionally there was a small opening on the bank, made for the purpose of log-rolling. 1859A. Cary Country Life i. (1876) 7 It was less welcome than as if it had brought a log-rolling. 1883Harper's Mag. Jan. 283/1 The great festivals of Western life are camp-meetings, barbecues, and log-rollings.
b. The action of propelling over the water a log on which one is seated.
1893Westm. Gaz. 16 May 5/1 For the special benefit of the distinguished spectators..an elaborate display of log-rolling was given.
2. colloq. (orig. U.S.).
a. Combination for mutual assistance in political or other action. Also attrib. or as adj.
Suggested by the proverbial phrase ‘You roll my log and I'll roll yours’.
1823Niles' Weekly Reg. 7 June 210/1 That sort of ‘management’, now rather more fashionable, and known by the dignified appellation of ‘log-rolling’—that is, a buying and selling of votes. 1838J. A. Quitman Let. 13 Dec. in J. F. H. Claiborne Life & Corr. J. A. Quitman (1860) I. 165 Tending to promote combinations and log-rolling schemes. 1841–4Emerson Ess., Poet Wks. (Bohn.) I. 169 Our log-rolling, our stumps and their politics..are yet unsung. 1860S. Mordecai Virginia xxx. 303 But the log-rolling system of Virginia has diverted her energies from the completion of any one useful work. 1869Atlantic Monthly Sept. 365/2 The log-rolling lobby generally exerted their powers upon objects which possessed a public character. 1879Times 19 June, The bribe was political preferment, or ‘log-rolling’—that is, help in passing other Bills. 1888Bryce Amer. Commw. I. i. xv. 213 Corruption..appears chiefly in the milder form of reciprocal jobbing or (as it is called) ‘log-rolling’. 1889G. B. Shaw London Music 1888–89 (1937) 245, I received them with imprecations, having exhausted every form of words that logrolling amenity could take. 1914W. B. Yeats Responsibilities 78 Log-rolling cranks and faddists. 1919New Statesman 2 Aug. 437/2 There is no such thing as gratitude in politics—a fact which is perhaps the chief security we have against a universal orgie of log-rolling. 1929A. Douglas Autobiogr. xxxiii. 222, I was involved in half-a-dozen controversies which covered matters of principle and the welfare of letters, as opposed to log⁓rolling and corrupt cliques. 1932N. M. Butler Looking Forward vi. 87 This is no time..to permit log-rolling combinations of special interests to use public authority for their own benefit. 1957J. S. Huxley Relig. without Revelation vi. 136 Politics would degenerate into a game of log-rolling. 1967V. Nabokov Speak, Memory (ed. 2) xiv. 284 In their attitude toward literature they were curiously conservative; with them soul-saving came first, logrolling next, and art last. 1975N.Y. Times 4 Mar. 33/3 In fact, a logrolling system, from which women rarely benefit, is the norm for faculty hiring.
b. Mutual puffing in literary publications.
[1845in Longm. Mag. (1900) Feb. 375 Somewhere in this book of Letters occurs, about 1845, the phrase ‘literary log-rolling’, the earliest instance which one has met.] 1888J. Payn in Illustr. Lond. News 7 Jan. 2 To have an eye to its [the book's] merits rather than to its defects, is obviously log-rolling. 18..American XVII. 350 (Cent.) If by log⁓rolling is meant that reviewers praise people in hopes of being praised in turn, then the taunt is empty. |