单词	first past the post
释义	first past the post /fəːst pɑːst ðə ˈpəʊst / 1(Of a contestant, especially a horse) winning a race by being the first to reach the finishing line: Aliysa was first past the post in the 1989 Oaks... Esha Ness, ridden by John White and trained by Jenny Pitman, was the first past the post but the race was later declared void. Local Claremorris man Finbar Donnellan also had a share in a horse that was first past the post in one of Wednesday's races. Boxed in on the final corner by his rivals, he had to pull out all the stops up Cheltenham's notoriously unforgiving hill to ensure that he was first past the post. 1.1 [attributive] British Denoting an electoral system in which a candidate or party is selected by achievement of a simple majority: our first-past-the-post electoral system... Secondly, making an electoral breakthrough in a first past the post electoral system remains tough. The first past the post system always unfairly rewards the largest parties, but the results become particularly arbitrary when their share of the vote is relatively small. The first past the post system won't deliver that. See parent entry: first
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