tea party
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- proper noun
- /tiː ˈpɑːrti/
- Literature
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Tea Party
- People, if you have core Tea Party beliefs, start speaking up and getting in your rep's face.
- Tea Party faction
So I do think the Tea Party, the Tea Party as a force is done.
- So I do think the Tea Party, the Tea Party as a force is done.
- Well, you know, we had the politics of resentment with the Tea Party long before that, didn't we?
- They create bodies like the Tea Party.
- These, they became the, the birthers, they became the Tea Party.
- And, and he, he midwifed the Tea Party into existence, which which led to MAGA.
- What what happened this time that didn't happen after the ACA was originally passed and the Tea Party revolted, was that citizens did not give up.
- So again, going back to my opening comments, if there are, there are losses on the Republican side in these elections, will it be the Tea Party wing?
- The other was the fact of the Tea Party.
- You know, Tea Party, The the names just start getting worse from there.
Examples
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Groups like the American Family Association and the Family Research Council have been promoting Tea Party events.
Academic text (2010) -
You talk about the Tea Party today.
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So I do think the Tea Party, the Tea Party as a force is done.
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Summit attendees heard three women who are active in local Tea Parties talk about how their religious faith motivated them to act.
Academic text (2010) -
But the Boston Tea Party of 1773 set off a chain of events that led to the American Revolution.
Fiction book (2000) -
It's the real reason he picked Paul Ryan, a Tea Party darling, as his VP running mate.
Blog text (7) -
Well, you know, we had the politics of resentment with the Tea Party long before that, didn't we?
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Despite Republican do-nothing and Tea Party obstructionism, the numbers are beginning to slowly pick up again.
Blog text (3) -
An example of a certain kind of self-organization of unsatisfied citizens in America is that of the Tea Party in the 2010s.
Academic text (2017) -
During the election, the Tea Party focused on advocating for lower taxes and reduced federal spending.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The political-movement meaning of 'Tea Party' cannot be derived from the literal constituents 'tea' (a drink/social occasion) and 'party' (a celebration/meeting); the phrase in this sense is a culture-specific proper name tied to US political history. A B1 learner who knows both words but lacks background in US politics is unlikely to infer the conservative movement sense, so the expression is idiomatic and unpredictable.
Etymology
Tea Party gets its name from the Boston Tea Party, a famous protest when Americans dumped tea into the harbor to protest taxes; that strong image of protest is why the modern Tea Party movement chose the name to mean 'a group that wants smaller government and lower taxes'.