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单词 ring-ridden
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ring-ridden
e. Branch III., spec. in sense 14, as ring government, ring politician, ring price; ring-ridden adj.
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1866 New Hampsh. Statesman 7 Dec. Clique and ring politicians accelerate the downfall of the Democratic party.
1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. II. lxiv. 477 The materials for real ring government do not exist..outside the large cities.
1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. II. lxiv. 477 Country places and the smaller cities are not ring-ridden.
1889 Spectator 12 Oct. 478/1 Judges, district attorneys, and other functionaries owe their places to ring politicians.
1955 Times 13 May 9/1 Wellington City Council, which recently protested strongly against the submission of equal tenders by a number of British firms, has now decided to accept a tender for electric cable which is £3,000 below the ‘ring price’.
1964 Louisiana Hist. 5 395 The Ring politicians had sprung mainly from the working classes and catered to this group to keep themselves in power.
1968 Sunday Times 10 Nov. 1/2 Ring dealing is when dealers agree not to force the price up by bidding against each other at an auction.
2006 J. F. Bauman & E. K. Muller Before Renaissance 40 Before Pittsburgh could become a moral, orderly planned environment, its corrupt ring government had to be vanquished.
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