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A ceramic pottery vase from the Ming period.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: pottery
Topics: art, arts
Examples
- 2017, November 11. Andrew Adonis "Tony Blair and Europe: shattering the Ming vase", Prospect Magazine. "Tony’s great friend and mentor, and mine, Roy Jenkins, once likened Tony’s attitude to power to the museum curator carrying a priceless Ming vase across a slippery floor, desperate not to drop it." "Roger Liddle, in his excellent first-hand account of the internal politics of European policy under Tony, says that Gordon ‘fiercely resisted’ Tony making this pre-1997 referendum commitment on the Euro. But Tony was fixated on the Ming vase and not slipping."
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Something both valuable and fragile.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, figuratively
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A political strategy emphasising caution and the avoidance of controversies.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: attributive
Topics: government, politics
Examples
- 2024, July 5. "Labour has won the British election. Now it has to seize the moment", The Economist. During the campaign, fear of losing the election led the party to adopt a “Ming vase” strategy of avoiding controversy and closing down possible lines of attack.
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