caucus race

短语

词形变化

caucus races 复数

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The competitive process in which a political party selects their candidate, especially presidential; a primary election via caucus.

    美国 习语
  2. 2.

    A political competition; the game of campaigning and one-upmanship to get votes and be elected.

    美国 习语
  3. 1.

    A laborious but arbitrary and futile activity; an activity that amounts to running around in a circle, expending great energy but not accomplishing anything.

    习语

    With the dominant figure in U.S. politics forced to the sidelines for—perhaps—the rest of the year, the national political situation last week began to take on the unreal air of the Dodo's caucus race.

    The American economic system is beginning to resemble the caucus race in Alice in Wonderland. Is it not something of a contradiction to cut taxes to facilitate the resurgence of buying power that will increase the demand for appliances and, especially, vehicles —and at the same time enforce a reduction in demand for the petroleum fuels that must drive the cars and power the machines that will manufacture the appliances?

  4. 2.

    A win-win system; a positive system in which everybody wins.

词源

From caucus (“special party meeting for vote allocation”) + race (“contest between people”).

来源：wiktionary