stump speech/speaker

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishstump speech/speakerstump speech/speakerAmerican English a speech made by a politician who is travelling around in order to gain political support, or the politician who gives this speech → stumpExamples from the Corpusstump speech/speaker• Pete Magowan should have brought Clark back to give stump speeches about the horrors of Candlestick.• Voinovich, 59, is described as a roll-up-the-sleeves fiscal manager and a good stump speaker.• His strident 30-minute stump speech was interrupted only a couple of times with polite applause.• No soap box, no stump speech, no calling out, in a beer-barrel voice, to hit the bricks.• They campaigned for Hardaway while the Adelman ticket delivered a persuasive stump speech.• Clinton does not include his pro-choice stand in his standard stump speech, either.• Confronted by the realities of office, even young men forget the carefree promises of the stump speech.

单词	stump speech/speaker
释义	stump speech/speaker From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishstump speech/speakerstump speech/speakerAmerican English a speech made by a politician who is travelling around in order to gain political support, or the politician who gives this speech → stumpExamples from the Corpusstump speech/speaker• Pete Magowan should have brought Clark back to give stump speeches about the horrors of Candlestick.• Voinovich, 59, is described as a roll-up-the-sleeves fiscal manager and a good stump speaker.• His strident 30-minute stump speech was interrupted only a couple of times with polite applause.• No soap box, no stump speech, no calling out, in a beer-barrel voice, to hit the bricks.• They campaigned for Hardaway while the Adelman ticket delivered a persuasive stump speech.• Clinton does not include his pro-choice stand in his standard stump speech, either.• Confronted by the realities of office, even young men forget the carefree promises of the stump speech.
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