| 单词 | political football |
| 释义 | political football From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishpolitical footballpolitical footballPROBLEMa difficult problem which opposing politicians argue about or which each side deals with in a way that will bring them advantageFunding of the health service has become a political football. → politicalExamples from the Corpuspolitical football• Airline safety has become a political football.• But can the game afford to hold its showpiece in an unstable country where sport is a political football?• I urge him to stop any move to allow the barrage project to continue to be used as a party political football.• In recent years funding and management of the health service has become something of a political football.• The Treasury felt strongly that changes in taxation for purposes of stabilising employment would immediately become a political football.• The use of education as a political football has entered the language as a cliché. |
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