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circle the wagons to stop communicating with people not in your group to avoid their ideas or beliefs. Americans are feeling it is an especially good time to spend time with family, to circle the wagons. Etymology: based on the custom of bringing wagons (= vehicles pulled by horses) into a circle when they are being attacked |
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Edleman has friends throughout the nationwide system-and used these connections to circle the wagons against what he saw as a formidable foe in the Dutch-owned Rabobank. As "conservative" commentator John Podhoretz approvingly pointed out in a December 13th column for the New York Post (which is owned by CFR media magnate Rupert Murdoch), "conservatives didn't circle the wagons, claiming that Lott was being mistreated and he'd already apologized and Bill Clinton did worse. But, as I implied, the current recall campaign appears so partisan that the media and Democrats almost certainly would circle the wagons around you. |
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