stump speech
English
Stump Speaking (1853–54), George Caleb Bingham
Etymology
From a bucolic image of a politician touring little settlements with his boilerplate speech which he delivers standing atop the stump of a chopped-down tree.
Noun
stump speech (plural stump speeches)
- (politics, chiefly US) A standard speech by a politician running for office.
- 2008 November 3, John M. Broder, Julie Bosman, “In States Once Reliably Red, Palin and Biden Tighten Their Stump Speeches”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
- A week ago, two or three events a day was the norm for each candidate. They have shortened their stump speeches and are spending less time greeting supporters.
- 2014, Astra Taylor, The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age, Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN:
- “You're hungry and you want a burrito,” [Jeff] Jarvis exclaimed during one of his frequent stump speeches.
Translations
standard pre-election speech
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Further reading
stump speech (politics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - “stump speech”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
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