lobby fodder
- noun
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material de cabildeo
- He dismissed the statistics as mere lobby fodder created by interest groups.
Examples
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The report was filled with lobby fodder disguised as facts.
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Many policy briefings include lobby fodder to steer debates in a particular direction.
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The report was filled with lobby fodder to sway the committee.
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Many politicians rely on lobby fodder to support their arguments.
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Many policy briefings include lobby fodder to steer debates in a particular direction.
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He dismissed the statistics as mere lobby fodder created by interest groups.
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The report was filled with lobby fodder disguised as facts.
Synonyms
291
6.2
Information spread on purpose to many people to help some people or hurt others
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5.8
Information people use to support or criticize an argument
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7.1
Words used to persuade people about government or policies
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5.1
Everything you need to support your side in a discussion or debate
Facts or reasons you use to support a point
How Persuasive
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1.8
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6.2
- Literature
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3.9
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1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun phrase is compositionally analyzable as fodder (material or content used for a purpose) modified by lobby (the group or activity directed at lawmakers), so the overall idea ‘material used to influence lawmakers’ follows from combining the constituents. However this relies on knowing the metaphorical/extended sense of fodder (beyond literal ‘animal feed’ or the specialized ‘cannon fodder’ sense), which may not be obvious to an average B1 learner, so the relation is only partially predictable.
Etymology
Lobby fodder may come from the image of animals eating fodder while people 'feed' prepared facts and arguments to politicians in a lobby. That's why it means material made to 'influence lawmakers'.