单词 | platform plank |
释义 | > as lemmasplatform plank platform plank n. any of the principal policies making up the electoral platform of a political party (cf. sense A. 7b). ΚΠ 1859 N.Y. Times 14 Feb. 4/2 The airing of Cuba as a platform-plank had been carried on quite long enough. 1931 H. F. Pringle Theodore Roosevelt i. xii. 161 He borrowed many a platform plank from the man he professed to hold in contempt. 1999 N.Y. Times 3 Oct. i. 3/3 But other platform planks are, in American terms, classic tax-and-spend liberalism: Mr. Haider promises $400 a month to every Austrian mother. < as lemmas |
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