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单词 to vote yellow
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to vote yellow
5. An adherent or member of a faction or political party distinguished or represented by the colour yellow (cf. sense A. 6). Also (in to vote yellow): a political party distinguished or represented by the colour yellow.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > [noun] > attachment to party > one attached to party > member of party known by colour
blue1753
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blue shirt1933
greenshirt1941
1755 Gentleman's Mag. Aug. 339/2 The blues being in the old interest, and the yellows in the new.
1785 A. Luders Rep. Proc. Comm. House of Commons upon Controverted Elections I. 40 He should not have voted for the yellows, if he had not been made easy on this demand.
1868 ‘H. Lee’ Basil Godfrey's Caprice III. li. 52 He would not vote yellow.
1881 J. Morley Life R. Cobden I. 91 Making citizenship into something loftier and more generous than the old strife of Blues and Yellows.
1953 Times Lit. Suppl. 3 July 422/1 He marched off to the polling booth.., voted ‘yellow’ and gave the money to the Suffolk hospital.
1989 Economist 28 Oct. (West Germany Suppl.) 20/2 A so-called ‘traffic light’ coalition between reds, greens and yellows (liberals).
2016 Bristol Post (Nexis) 9 Sept. The ‘yellows’ were quick to point out that he could have put his hand in his pocket a bit more often to fund the NHS when he was still in Downing Street.
extracted from yellowadj.n.
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