| 释义 |
‖ mot d'ordre|mo dɔrdr|
[Fr. (mot2), lit. ‘word of command’.]
A political slogan or watchword; an expression of policy; an oral directive or plan.
1855Newsp. & Gen. Reader's Compan. i. §159 ‘A mot d'ordre was given by the Legitimist leaders of the fusion’; that is to say, A watchword, &c. 1878L. W. M. Lockhart Mine is Thine I. vii. 144 Another kind of success was to be procured by occasional fits of recalcitrancy against the mots d'ordre of the party. 1884E. W. Hamilton Diary 18 Nov. (1972) II. 735 The Tory Party held their meeting at the Carlton this morning; and Pax was the mot d'ordre, much to the discomfiture of the hot-headed ones. 1905Baroness Orczy Scarlet Pimpernel xii. 119 Evidently expecting to meet their chief—and perhaps to get a fresh mot d'ordre from him. 1930Observer 13 Apr. 17/5 The official mot d'ordre is that Mr. Gandhi's salt campaign must be treated with a sense of humour. 1947Ann. Reg. 1946 217 The sustained Soviet offensive..against Great Britain and the United States had the appearance of conformity with a mot d'ordre. |
