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common cause
Idioms and Phrases
A joint interest, as in “The common cause against the enemies of piety” (from John Dryden's poem, Religio laici, or a Layman's Faith , 1682). This term originated as to make common cause (with) , meaning “to unite one's interest with another's.” In the mid-1900s the name Common Cause was adopted by a liberal lobbying group.Example Sentences
For them, this was an opportunity, not simply to show support for Le Pen but to use her case to highlight what they see as their common cause – a struggle against a politically traditional mainstream, that seeks to muzzle or undermine their nationalist agenda.
State Department-designated foreign terrorist organization, and by making common cause with an organization clamoring more generally for the end of Western civilization.
BV is a common cause of unusual vaginal discharge that has a strong fishy smell.
“It’s pretty egregious,” said Sean McMorris, transparency, ethics and accountability program manager for California Common Cause, a political watchdog group.
Brain abnormalities called focal cortical dysplasia are a common cause of epilepsy, especially when medication cannot control seizures.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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