pulpit : Idioms & Phrases


bully pulpit

  • noun a public office of sufficiently high rank that it provides the holder with an opportunity to speak out and be listened to on any matter
    • the American presidency is a bully pulpit
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Jack-in-the-pulpit

  • noun common American spring-flowering woodland herb having sheathing leaves and an upright club-shaped spadix with overarching green and purple spathe producing scarlet berries
    Arisaema atrorubens; wake-robin; Arisaema triphyllum; Indian turnip.
  • noun common European arum with lanceolate spathe and short purple spadix; emerges in early spring; source of a starch called arum
    cuckoopint; Arum maculatum; lords-and-ladies.
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  • (Bot.), the American plant Arisæma triphyllum, or Indian turnip, in which the upright spadix is inclosed.
Webster 1913