2024年12月19日 星期四

Tuffitt. "Vote down". House Votes Down Trump-Endorsed Bill to Keep Government Open Past Friday

House Votes Down Trump-Endorsed Bill to Keep Government Open Past Friday

Speaker Mike Johnson rushed the bill to a vote after President-elect Trump told Republicans to kill a bipartisan measure that had been expected to pass.


"Vote down" is a phrasal verb that means to defeat or reject something by voting for something else. For example, "The proposal was voted down".


Here are some other examples of "vote down" in a sentence:

"The board voted down the expansion plan,
A close-up of pink metallic spaghetti-like coils.
“Pink Tuffitt,” 2007, by Forrest Myers.Credit...via Superhouse
A tuffet is a low seatHere are some examples of tuffets in a sentence: 
  • "Hey, I'm fine with an ottoman, tuffet or packing crate, too!"
  • "She'd told me to pick up a piece of it and sit before her on a pillow tuffet"
  • "Some looked like a portable tuffet and others resembled upmarket versions of inexpensive nylon shopping bags"


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