| 单词 | the reins of power |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe reins of power b. In plural. Control; the capacity to direct or govern; frequently in phrases as the reins of power, the reins of government. Frequently with verbs of holding, taking, or transferring. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > a or the government > [noun] > control vested in the government stern1577 the reins of government1607 1607 E. Grimeston tr. Gen. Inuentorie Hist. France ii. 944 The Empresse his Mother, (who during his Delights and Dissolutions held the reyns of Gouernment) did alwayes..support the worst Councells and Resolutions. 1654 J. Hall Of Govt. & Obed. ii. xii. 195 Discretion bids him hold the streight reins of power upon their wavering affections, lest, by another, using his policy, he should be again supplanted. a1681 R. Allestree Vanity of Creature (1684) 6 A poor Fisherman..snatch'd up the Reins of Government from him. 1736 Ld. Hervey Mem. I. 138 Examinations and siftings seldom turning to the account of those who have the reins of power. 1757 Mother-in-law I. iv. 35 He delivered over the Reins into her Hands, and..submitted to the Shackles she was every Day forging for him. 1777 R. Watson Hist. Reign Philip II II. xiv. 1 The council of state assumed the reins of government. 1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. II. xvi. 587 Anne herself..kept in her own hands the reins of power. 1879 J. A. Froude Cæsar v. 44 The Senate had dropped the reins, and no longer governed or misgoverned. 1928 F. M. Ford Last Post ii. 40 The subversive and the ignorant who everywhere seized the reins of power. 1973 J. Brooke King George III. iii. 89 In the last years of his life the late King had relaxed his hold on the reins of government. 2002 Cathedral Music Oct. 6/1 Peter Toyne, FCM's fourth chairman, who took over the reins from Alan Thurlow in June. < as lemmas |
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