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- Turkeys_voting_for_Christmas abstract "Turkeys voting for Christmas (British English; American English: turkeys voting for Thanksgiving) is an idiom used as a metaphor or simile (in the construct "like turkeys voting for Christmas") in reference to a suicidal ("death-wish") political act, especially a vote.The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations writes that a commentator in the Independent Magazine traced the origin of the phrase to David Penhaligon, who is quoted as saying: "Us voting for the Pact is like a turkey voting for Christmas" in reference to the Lib-Lab Pact.The phrase was soon borrowed by other politicians and public figures. In particular, British MP Teresa Gorman was awarded by the French with a "foreign political humour prize" for the phrase "If the House of Commons voted for Maastricht it would be like 651 turkeys voting for Christmas."".
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- Turkeys_voting_for_Christmas subject Category:Clichés.
- Turkeys_voting_for_Christmas subject Category:Humour.
- Turkeys_voting_for_Christmas subject Category:Metaphors_referring_to_birds.
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- Turkeys_voting_for_Christmas comment "Turkeys voting for Christmas (British English; American English: turkeys voting for Thanksgiving) is an idiom used as a metaphor or simile (in the construct "like turkeys voting for Christmas") in reference to a suicidal ("death-wish") political act, especially a vote.The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations writes that a commentator in the Independent Magazine traced the origin of the phrase to David Penhaligon, who is quoted as saying: "Us voting for the Pact is like a turkey voting for Christmas" in reference to the Lib-Lab Pact.The phrase was soon borrowed by other politicians and public figures. ".
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