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party line
[f. party n. + line n.2]
1. A policy adopted by a political party; an area of policy or ‘line’ separating the policy of one political party from that of another. Also transf. and (with hyphen) attrib.
1834T. H. Benton 30 Years' View (1854) I. 431/2 Look at the vote in the Senate upon the adoption of the resolution, also as clearly defined by a party line as any party question can ever be expected to be. 1904G. B. Shaw Common Sense of Municipal Trading xi. 105 A councillor selected on strict party lines. 1915Mrs. H. Ward Eltham House xiv. 268 The dogged adherence to the traditional party lines and shibboleths on the part of the average British voter. 1937C. Connolly in L. Russell Press Gang! 95 The kind of bullets they keep for reviewers who step across the party line. 1942Z. N. Hurston in A. Dundes Mother Wit (1973) 32/2, I am a mixed-blood,..but I differ from the party line in that I neither consider it an honor nor a shame. 1948Daily Ardmoreite (Ardmore, Okla.) 2 May 5/4 On party-line votes, this will give the democrats guarantee of a two-thirds majority. 1957Times Lit. Suppl. 27 Dec. 782/3 Mr Dawson's party-line pronouncements on such subjects as contraception or the mediative role of the Church. 1966Listener 10 Mar. 357/2 When any of his whig friends deviated from the party-line, the old pedant laid into them. 1975J. P. Morgan House of Lords & Labour Govt. iv. 134 It can be safely concluded that, for whatever reason, there is such a phenomenon as party-line voting in the Lords. 1976S. Hynes Auden Generation vi. 171 This party-line definition of proletarian art. 1977A. Ecclestone Staircase for Silence v. 88 He was well aware of the faith-destroying outcome of the dogmatism of the party-line, whether in Church or State.
2. [party n. 18 b.] A telephone line shared by two or more subscribers. Also transf. and (with hyphen) attrib.
1893W. J. Hopkins Telephone Lines i. 4 When ‘party lines’, so called, are used, they should be connected according to the ‘bridging-bell’ method. 1901Ann. Rep. Amer. Telephone & Telegr. Co. 1900 The general adoption of..party lines..has attracted many thousands of subscribers. 1930Telegraph & Telephone Jrnl. XVI. 115/2 The ‘party line’ is not so rife in this country as in America. Ibid. 119/2 The number of rural party lines at Dec. 31, 1929 was 10,322. 1933Punch 10 May 508/1 If you take a real personal interest in your fellow-beings as I do, I should advise all those living in the country to have a party-line. 1959Ibid. 19 Aug. 30/3 The new ‘party-line’ electronic stethoscope..allows up to four doctors to listen to a patient's heart simultaneously. 1973M. Russell Double Hit vi. 44 He overheard things on our party line.
Hence ˌparty-ˈliner, one who follows the line adopted by a political party; also transf.; so ˌparty-ˈlining vbl. n.
1940Common Sense (N.Y.) Feb. 21/2 Right now a Communist Party-liner does not have a ghost of a chance in the A.F. of T. 1943Sun (Baltimore) 28 Sept. 12/2 The speech he [sc. Earl Browder] has just made at Chicago is fully as brash as anything he said before Marshal Stalin disowned him and other party-liners outside of Russia by liquidating the Communist Internationale in May of this year. 1948Daily Mail 7 Feb. 2/6 When the party-liner squawks an indignant protest he is at once knocked off his perch. 1949Virginia Q. Rev. Winter 44 For the past eleven years he has allied himself with, and never broken on any significant issue from, the ‘party-liners’. 1958Spectator 27 June 846/3 Large immigrant colonies of Poles, Lithuanians and others who were not easily taken in by Soviet party-lining. 1966Economist 1 Oct. 39/3 The Chinese here—Nationalists and party-liners alike..are clearly confused. 1969Guardian 31 July 5/3 The..gulf..between..party-liners and deviationists. 1973C. Mullard Black Brit. ix. 106 Good councillors who find themselves in disagreement with their party's views on race can be removed and replaced with party-liners. |