| 词汇 | political football |
| 释义 | political footballpolitical football PROBLEMa difficult problem which opposing politicians argue about or which each side deals with in a way that will bring them advantage 政治足球〔指对立的政客争论的难题或双方都以有利于自己的方式来处理的问题〕 Funding of the health service has become a political football. 公共医疗保健服务的资金问题已成了被踢来踢去的政治足球。 Examples from the Corpus political 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.• Abortion is becoming a political football misrepresented by the right to raise money and advance political agendas. → political football at political(1) |
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