stump speech
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From a bucolic image of a politician touring little settlements with his boilerplate speech which he delivers standing atop the stump of a chopped-down tree.
Noun [edit]
stump speech (plural stump speeches)
- (politics) A standard speech by a politician running for office.
Translations [edit]
standard pre-election speech
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