| 单词 | wedge issue |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswedge issue wedge issue n. Politics (originally and chiefly North American) an extremely divisive issue, esp. viewed as a means of drawing voters away from a political party split by it. ΚΠ 1982 Chicago Tribune 13 May i. 23/5 It is Kennedy, today, who is promoting the high-visibility cause of the nuclear freeze, a wedge issue if ever there was one. 1991 Newsweek 16 Dec. 28/3 Black is an expert in the use of ‘wedge issues’, like crime and the flag, to split off conservative white males from the Democratic Party. 1998 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 22 Oct. 74/1 The Croatian offensive proved to be a wedge issue that divided not only Americans and Europeans, but the top echelons of the American government itself. 2004 J. Micklethwait & A. Wooldridge Right Nation xii. 311 Conservatives were the first to turn abortion into a wedge issue in the South, as values trumped class in American politics. < as lemmas |
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