palace revolution

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“I think the time is right for a palace revolution/ but where I live the game to play is compromise solution,” shouts Jagger in the song’s second verse.

From Slate • Oct. 6, 2016

He was forced to resign under pressure of a palace revolution led by a majority of his own board of directors.

From Time Magazine Archive

The groom himself had to put up with a little good-natured palace revolution.

From Time Magazine Archive

When he had turned 71 and still was not ready to relinquish command, impatient subordinates staged a palace revolution and kicked him upstairs to be chairman of the board.

From Time Magazine Archive

The truth appears to be that he came to the throne as the leader of a palace revolution at a time of great unrest.

From Myths of Babylonia and Assyria by Mackenzie, Donald Alexander