straw poll

短语

n. 测验民意的投票

发音

AU

词形变化

straw polls 复数 straw polls

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A survey of opinion or a vote that is nonbinding, unofficial, casual, or ad hoc.

    习语

    2002: I don't think it was innocence that made me want to carry out a straw poll of women friends on the plausibility of this passage — James Meek in London Review of Books, Vol. 24 No. 22, 14 November 2002

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

straw vote

上位词 3

poll canvass opinion poll

词源

It may allude to a straw (thin plant stalk) held up to see in what direction the wind blows: in this case, the metaphorical wind of group opinion.

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