political/economic suicide

DESTROYsomething you do that ruins your good position in politics or the economy 断送政治前程/经济发展之举

He said a vote for Labour would be a vote for economic suicide.

他说投工党的票等于是自毁经济。

Examples from the Corpus

political/economic suicide• The government believes it would be political suicide to allow pension contributions to rise above 30 percent.• To have taken on the world in that state would have been political suicide.• Hence Mr Yeltsin's dilemma: to persuade the deputies to commit political suicide without acting unconstitutionally.• It built the Central Valley Project to rescue the growers from economic suicide by groundwater overdraft.• Sensing his authority had ebbed, Fujimori grimly took the only exit left: political suicide, a move that stunned everyone.

→ political/economic suicide at suicide(1)

单词	political/economic suicide
释义	political/economic suicide political/economic suicide DESTROYsomething you do that ruins your good position in politics or the economy 断送政治前程/经济发展之举 He said a vote for Labour would be a vote for economic suicide. 他说投工党的票等于是自毁经济。 Examples from the Corpus political/economic suicide• The government believes it would be political suicide to allow pension contributions to rise above 30 percent.• To have taken on the world in that state would have been political suicide.• Hence Mr Yeltsin's dilemma: to persuade the deputies to commit political suicide without acting unconstitutionally.• It built the Central Valley Project to rescue the growers from economic suicide by groundwater overdraft.• Sensing his authority had ebbed, Fujimori grimly took the only exit left: political suicide, a move that stunned everyone. → political/economic suicide at suicide(1)
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