party cry

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It believed the denunciation to be a mere party cry, a scream of disappointment and impotence from those who held no places and controlled no patronage.

From American Eloquence, Volume 4 Studies In American Political History (1897) by Johnston, Alexander

Lady Tyrrell—all the ladies, in fact—have set their minds on it, and if I objected there would instantly be a party cry against me, and that is the one thing I have always avoided.”

From The Three Brides by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

While we have always demanded emancipation and enfranchisement for the African race, we have no great enthusiasm for "negro suffrage" as a party cry, because it is too narrow and partial for the hour.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

A subscription was opened in the columns of the Marseillaise to replace the sequestrated animal, and "La vache à Gambon"—"Gambon's cow"—became a derisive party cry.

From Paris under the Commune The Seventy-Three Days of the Second Siege; with Numerous Illustrations, Sketches Taken on the Spot, and Portraits (from the Original Photographs) by Leighton, John

Well, Father Rowley has really managed to make out of what was becoming a sort of ecclesiastical party cry something that really is evangelical and at the same time Catholic.

From The Altar Steps by MacKenzie, Compton