“Bog-trotter”的意思、由来-开放百科全书

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Bog-trotter

释义

Bog-trotter can mean:

Slang or derogatory for some types of Irishman: see List of ethnic slurs
In UK Parliamentary slang, a party's parliamentary whip whose job was, at a parliamentary division, to quickly check round the Parliament building's toilets to check if any of his party's members were in there, as a few members missing at a vote may lose the vote, if the vote is close.^[1]

References

1. ^https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199798/cmhansrd/vo970604/debtext/70604-49.htm Hansard (section '4 Jun 1997 : Column 507')

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