单词 | round robineer |
释义 | > as lemmasround robiˈneer round robiˈneer n. a person who signs a round robin (see sense 8); spec. one of fifteen United States senators who signed a document stating they would not vote to impeach Governor Huey Long of Louisiana in 1929. ΚΠ 1933 H. P. Long Every Man King xii. 179 If ever again you fifteen round-robineers find me drowning, for Heaven's sake, let me drown! 1992 R. Mann Legacy to Power xxvii. 315 Fifteen men had rescued his father's career when they signed the famous Round Robin... In his own way, Russell was finally a Round Robineer. 2002 E. F. Haas in B. H. Wall Louisiana (ed. 4) xii. 280 Long continued to bestow favors on the fifteen ‘round robineers’. < as lemmas |
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