| 单词 | the best club in london |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe best club in London c. the best club in London: a jocular name for the House of Commons. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > English or British parliament > [noun] > House of Commons commons?1433 commonalty1450 Nether House1536 House of Commons1604 grand (or great) inquest of the nation1691 the best club in London1864 1857 E. M. Whitty Friends of Bohemia II. i. 5 Some here [i.e. in the House of Commons] because it is the right club.] 1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. ii. iii. 186 I think..that it [sc. the House of Commons] is the best club in London. 1914 G. K. Chesterton Flying Inn xvii. 195 He saw afar off, sitting above the river, what has been very erroneously described as the best club in London. 1967 L. Woolf Downhill all Way i. 33 A backbench M.P. in the 1920s..was, no doubt, a member of what was said to be the best club in London. < as lemmas |
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