| 词汇 | political-football |
| 释义 | a political footballidiom a problem that politicians from different parties argue about and try to use in order to get an advantage for themselves: 政治足球（各党派政治家争论并试图利用以获取好处的问题） We don't want the immigration issue to become a political football.我们不想让移民问题成为政治足球。 Politics - general words anti-capitalism anti-capitalist anti-communism anti-communist anti-fascism interparty interpellate interpellation interventionist lab on message Orwellian overstep parliament party politics statesman statesmanlike stateswoman subsidiarity super-conservative Examples of a political footballa political football The service is fed up with being apoliticalfootball. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There would be one dickens of apoliticalfootball if that sort of argument were started again. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am sorry that aid has been treated as apoliticalfootball and reduced to a trite and simplistic debate in recent years. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It must not be regarded as apoliticalfootball to be kicked about for temporary party advantage. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The service tends to get kicked around like apoliticalfootball. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We should be careful not to turn this discussion into the kicking around of apoliticalfootball. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The pharmaceutical industry has been apoliticalfootball for too long, and it is just about time that we stopped kicking it around. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 For too long, defence has been apoliticalfootball. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The service is far too big to be made apoliticalfootball; we should listen to local people. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We should not use those older people as apoliticalfootball—they are real people with real concerns that should be addressed in our debate. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They should not be allowed to become apoliticalfootball. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I have described the mining industry as apoliticalfootball. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I repeat that we should not minimise the problem, but we only exacerbate it by making apoliticalfootball of the situation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 But the chair should not become apoliticalfootball, as it would if the chairman were to change as often as political power changed. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We must not make them apoliticalfootball. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of a political football These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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