English
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Noun
straw poll (plural straw polls)
- idiom A survey of opinion which is unofficial, casual, or ad hoc.
Quotations
2002: I don't think it was innocence that made me want to carry out a straw poll of women friends on the plausibility of this passage — James Meek in London Review of Books, Vol. 24 No. 22, 14 November 2002
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