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tub-thumping en · NOUN

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  1. (alt-of, alternative, uncountable) Alternative form of tubthumping.
    • The other option – typified by the unapologetically noncharismatic leaders of Britain and Germany, Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Chancellor Friedrich Merz – has been to persuade the electorate they’ll work hard to deliver sustainable policy results on issues like immigration, and above all, economic growth, in a way that tub-thumping populists simply cannot. 2025 July 24, Ned Temko, “In Japan, too, voters want their country to be ‘great again’”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
    • Throughout all of these waves of media and political tub-thumping about youth crime, and subsequent policies on child sentencing, one thing above all shines through: recidivism. 2020 July 23, Chris Daw, “'A stain on national life': why are we locking up so many children?'”, in The Guardian: