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单词 a chicken in every pot
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a chicken in every pot (and a car in every garage)
P2. Chiefly U.S. Politics. a chicken in every pot (and a car in every garage) and variants: enough food, wealth, etc., for the whole population to share or participate in the benefits; prosperity for everyone. [The phrase a chicken in every pot originated as a paraphrase of a declaration famously attributed to Henry IV of France (see quot. 1830): Si Dieu me prête vie, je ferai qu'il n'y aura point de laboureur en mon royaume qui n'ait les moyens d'avoir le dimanche une poule dans son pot! ‘If God keeps me, I will make sure that no peasant in my realm will lack the means to have a chicken in his pot on Sundays!’ The idea was taken up by Herbert Hoover, who, as U.S. presidential candidate in 1928, said: ‘The slogan of progress is changing from the “full dinner pail” to the full garage’. This was paraphrased as a chicken in every pot and a car in every back yard (or garage ) in election material for his campaign; see, e.g., quot. 1928.]
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1830 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 564/2 The benevolent and amiable wish of Henry IV, that every peasant may have his chicken in his pot on Sunday.]
1928 San Antonio (Texas) Light 19 Oct. (Home ed.) a10/1 (advt.) A Chicken For Every Pot... Republican prosperity has reduced hours and increased earning capacity, silenced discontent, put the proverbial 'chicken in every pot.' And a car in every back yard, to boot.
1950 E. Lipscomb Grassroots Public Relations for Agric. iv. 48 While factories may produce payrolls sufficient to pay for a chicken in every pot, the pot will..be empty unless chicken farmers have the freedom..to continue raising chickens.
1992 Independent 20 Apr. 17/6 What is happening in the cities..of Asia is more like the America of the Twenties..than anything else. ‘A car in every garage and a chicken in every pot’..sums up the current aspirations.
2018 Orange County (Calif.) Reg. (Nexis) 1 Apr. h1 It's a chicken in every pot, a car in every garage;..free college for everybody; and well, ‘Make America great again!’..all rolled into one.
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