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单词 stroke of policy
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stroke of policy (or †politics)
a. A vigorous attempt to attain some object; a measure, expedient, or device adopted for some purpose. Also stroke of policy (or †politics) (cf. sense 11b). stroke of business: see business n. Phrases 28.
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the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [noun] > (a) means > available means or a resource > a device, contrivance, or expedient
costOE
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custc1275
ginc1275
devicec1290
enginec1300
quaintisec1300
contrevurec1330
castc1340
knackc1369
findinga1382
wilea1400
conject14..
skiftc1400
policy?1406
subtilityc1410
policec1450
conjecturea1464
industry1477
invention1516
cunning1526
shift1530
compass1540
chevisance1548
trade1550
tour1558
fashion1562
invent?1567
expediment1571
trick1573
ingeny1588
machine1595
lock1598
contrival1602
contrivement1611
artifice1620
recipea1643
ingenuity1651
expedient1653
contrivance1661
excogitation1664
mechanism1669
expediency1683
stroke1699
spell1728
management1736
manoeuvre1769
move1794
wrinkle1817
dodge1842
jigamaree1847
quiff1881
kink1889
lurk1916
gadget1920
fastie1931
ploy1940
1699 T. Baker Refl. Learning xiv. 166 Isidor's Collection was the great and bold Stroke, which [etc.].
1732 J. Arbuthnot Pract. Rules of Diet iv. 413 The greatest and most important Strokes for the Recovery of the Patient, must be made at the time of the Invasion, or first State of this Disease.
1769 E. Burke Observ. Late State Nation 56 He pays..some compliments to Lord Bute and Lord Despenser. But to the latter, this is, I suppose, but a civility to old acquaintance; to the former, a little stroke of politicks.
1822 J. Galt Provost xi. 85 Before the Michaelmas, I was..fully prepared to achieve a great stroke of policy for the future government of the town.
1850 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire I. iv. 207 This stroke of policy was not unsuccessful.
1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. ii. iii. 192 It is conceded by all, that that stroke of business on Brewer's part, in going down to the house that night to see how things looked, was the master-stroke.
1873 M. Arnold Lit. & Dogma iv. 108 For us,..Christianity [is] the greatest and happiest stroke ever yet made for human perfection.
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