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"etymology_text": "It may allude to a straw (thin plant stalk) held up to see in what direction the wind blows: in this case, the metaphorical wind of group opinion.",
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"text": "2002: I don't think it was innocence that made me want to carry out a straw poll of women friends on the plausibility of this passage — James Meek in London Review of Books, Vol. 24 No. 22, 14 November 2002"
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"(idiomatic) A survey of opinion or a vote that is nonbinding, unofficial, casual, or ad hoc."
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"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "unofficial survey of opinion",
"word": "pikakysely"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "unofficial survey of opinion",
"word": "unverbindliche Abstimmung"
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"sense": "unofficial survey of opinion",
"tags": [
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"word": "Probeabstimmung"
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"word": "inoffizielle Umfrage"
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"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "unofficial survey of opinion",
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"word": "suirbhé samplála"
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"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "unofficial survey of opinion",
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"word": "encuesta"
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"sense": "unofficial survey of opinion",
"word": "pikakysely"
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"feminine"
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