| 单词 | corridors of power |
| 释义 | corridors of powerSEE SYNONYMS FOR corridors of power ON THESAURUS.COM The offices of powerful leaders. For example, As clerk to a Supreme Court justice, Jim thought he'd get his foot inside the corridors of power. This term was first used by C.P. Snow in his novel Homecomings (1956) for the ministries of Britain's Whitehall, with their top-ranking civil servants. Later it was broadened to any high officials. Words nearby corridors of powerCorrèze, corrida, corrido, corridor, corridor of uncertainty, corridors of power, corrie, Corriedale, corrie-fisted, Corrientes, Corrigan The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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