of Commons voted for Maastricht it would be like 651 turkeys voting for Christmas." In the United States, the phrases turkeys voting for Thanksgiving...

relations): a heavily biased portrayal of an event or situation. turkeys voting for Christmas: Acting against one's own interests with no conceivable gain...

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Conservatives to bring his Government down. He described them as "turkeys voting for Christmas" and urged his Scottish supporters to "carve them up in the polling...

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decision of the SNP to bring down the Labour government as "turkeys voting for Christmas". The SNP group was reduced from 11 MPs to 2 at the 1979 general...

grammatically or cannot be understood from the individual meanings of its elements. For example, an English speaker would understand the phrase "kick the bucket"...

1573 turkeys were common in the English Christmas dinner. This custom gave rise to the humorous English idiom, "like turkeys voting for Christmas". The...

knew we were being brave in choosing him, because for most of us it was like turkeys voting for Christmas." By 1994 the company had some 3,400 employees...

Callaghan famously described this decision by the SNP as that of "turkeys voting for Christmas". After the 1979 general election, the SNP had only two seats...