| 单词 | treasury-bench |
| 释义 | > as lemmastreasury-bench treasury-bench n. the front bench on the right hand of the Speaker in the House of Commons, occupied by the Prime Minister (the first Lord of the Treasury), and other members of the Government. 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] > place of > occupied by lower house > parts of table?1572 treasury-bench1775 side gallery1778 ladies' gallery1815 ventilator1822 pairing desk1899 1775 F. E. Boscawen Let. 28 June in C. Aspinall-Oglander Admiral's Widow (1942) 64 Our cruel patriots..would willingly wade through blood, provided it led to the Treasury Bench. 1785 Rolliad (1790) 10 While on the Treasury-Bench you, Pitt, recline. 1882 W. Cory Guide Mod. Eng. Hist. ii. 482 The House of Commons [in 1835] did not show any wish to make the Prime Minister sit on its own Treasury Bench. < as lemmas |
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