单词 | outside the beltway |
释义 | > as lemmasoutside (also beyond) the Beltway P2. outside (also beyond) the Beltway: outside the political and social world of Washington, D.C.; in the rest of the United States. ΚΠ 1982 Winchester (Va.) Star 17 Feb. 4/3 The Washington oriented journalists, politicians, and bureaucrats..look with suspicion, if not contempt on breeds outside the Beltway. 1985 Washington Post (Nexis) 4 Aug. (Final ed.) c2 It's become a question of whether an event has become an ‘inside the Beltway’ story—one of interest and concern chiefly to the Washington community but causing yawns ‘beyond the Beltway’. 1992 N.Y. Times 23 June a18/1 That would require a considerable change from the situation as it now stands, at least according to the polls and the considered judgment of politicians outside the Beltway. 2005 Nation 27 June 27/2 Public financing victories outside the Beltway..put ordinary citizens in the driver's seat. < as lemmas |
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