a seat at the table
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4.8
- idiom
:
un asiento en la mesa
- Having a seat at the table allows individuals to influence policies that impact their lives.
Question is, does art have a seat at the table when you're building a brand?
- Question is, does art have a seat at the table when you're building a brand?
- If they don't give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.
- So I would like to see more of that in the future to to have a seat at the table with the regulators.
- And I could hear them say, I swear I could hear them say, at last we have a seat at the table.
- And when we don't have a seat at the table with these industries, innovation doesn't service our communities.
- And the suggestions are that they're basically buying their way in the door to have some sort of influence, a seat at the table, a say in matters.
- Instead of giving them a seat at the table, he expelled them to the countryside for hard labor for the so-called re education.
- But she called me and said, you've earned a seat at the table.
- That also Pres positions, positions that Tyrion appointed Braun to have a seat at the table of as master of coin.
- So the point is have a seat at the table.
Examples
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The aspirations of the smaller countries to have a seat at the table may be frustrated.
Academic text (1997) -
If you're lucky enough to have a seat at the table, use it.
Blog text (4) -
So I truly think this is a way where more people get a seat at the table, more people can trade these things back.
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"I need a seat at the table."
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All major players should have had a seat at the table, and they should have had a say.
Blog text (6) -
I need to find another way to earn a seat at the table.
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We wanted to show that everyone deserves a seat at the table.
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Question is, does art have a seat at the table when you're building a brand?
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They must, communities must have a seat at the table by which they demand health as their constitutional right.
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And money gives you a seat at the table, whether that is your kitchen table or it is a table at a restaurant or a table in a boardroom.
Antonyms
How Included
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase maps a concrete situation (having a physical seat at a table) onto the abstract idea of being included in discussions, so a learner who knows 'seat', 'at' and 'table' can often infer it relates to participation or inclusion. However, the specific institutional nuance of 'the right or opportunity to participate in decision-making' is metaphorical and not fully predictable from the literal words, so full comprehension may require exposure.
Etymology
A seat at the table comes from the simple image of being given a seat at a table where people are talking. If you have a seat, you can join the conversation and be heard, so the phrase now means having the right or chance to take part in important decisions ('to participate').