political plum

political plum

• [美国俚语]肥缺；由于政治背景而得到的高薪职务

• Sterne, Laurence
• dumb Dora
• prefacing
• tantalised
• from one day to the next
• singularising
• policemen
• habitational
• reinvest
• blameful
• jasperware
• licensings
• demagog
• yaup
• zebedees
• countermen
• airway beacon
• pptn.
• angiopathy
• delta kame
• bock
• sweet herb
• fornicators
• zymoses
• pyrochroite
• place sth in the clearest light
• bihor
• gastricism
• aluminium
• Wilkes, Charles
• horsewhipped
• coattailed
• cross-garnets
• Fertile Crescent
• stop-offs
• atopite
• three-jaw chuck
• gradables
• inflexions
• overcontain
• wrongful arrest / conviction / imprisonment / dismissal etc
• kleig eye
• disbenefits
• glidest
• be all thumbs
• groaning
• reintroducer
• fanning
• turn a blind eye to
• self-organization
• itemised
• prothrombins
• trafficlight
• bottomlands
• vizierial
• systems dynamics
• audiology
• barometries
• Sarawak
• a pile of bucks
• stingers
• formation fracturing
• slow virus
• glycate
• shimmed
• take-out bag
• institutionalised
• Baire class
• schlep
• begrime with
• wakeless
• run down sth
• revel in
• professional person / man / woman etc
• Lothringen
• heteropycnosis
• Arab League
• sacralized
• take something with a pinch （或grain） of salt
• countercoups
• c.f.
• parade as sth / be paraded as sth
• bait
• titmice
• terrazzos
• get the lead out
• intermixture
• in form
• arythmic
• camp davids
• wargamer
• many a little makes a mickle （亦作many a mickle makes a muckle）
• Tinkertoy
• partner up
• aminoplast
• kvetch
• titania
• draw bit
• enthralls
• plane of departure