Boston Tea Party
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- noun
- /ˈbɔstən ti ˈpɑrti/
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Boston Tea Party
- The Boston Tea Party was a pivotal event in American history, symbolizing resistance against taxation.
Examples
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"The Boston Tea Party was a demonstration in support of the idea of 'No taxation without representation.'"
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But the Boston Tea Party of 1773 set off a chain of events that led to the American Revolution.
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Take the Boston Tea Party, for instance.
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Google Boston Tea Party if you forget the date of the event.
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The events leading up to the Boston Tea Party and those subsequent to it make for an interesting read.
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Do you people even realize the significance of the Boston Tea Party?
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After the night of the Boston Tea Party, relations between Britain and the Colonies grew worse.
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The "Boston Tea Party" was an act committed by people who felt that taxation without representation was fundamentally wrong.
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The Boston Tea Party was not about taxation per se, but taxation without representation.
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Students read only the portions of Paul Revere's biographies and the informational texts that pertain to the Boston Tea Party.
Academic text (2014)
Surface Forms
Morphology
Although the words 'Boston', 'tea', and 'party' are individually transparent, a B1 learner would likely infer a social gathering with tea in Boston rather than a specific 1773 political protest in which colonists dumped tea. The expression is a culturally specific proper-name for a historical event whose full meaning is lexicalized and requires prior knowledge, so it is not derivable from the constituents.
Etymology
Boston Tea Party comes from an 1773 event when colonists in Boston dressed as Native Americans and threw boxes of tea into the harbor to 'protest' British taxes. That's why the name now stands for a bold public protest.