clout
suomi-englanti sanakirjaclout englannista suomeksi
painoarvo, vaikutusvalta
isku
lyödä
leveäkantainen naula
maalitaulu
clout englanniksi
Influence or effectiveness, especially political.
(quote-book)
(quote-book)ethics officers themselves often complain that they can recommend but have little clout with which to create real change.
(quote-journal)
(quote-song) looking for some clout / I had what they wanted so they always came around
(quote-web)
A blow with the hand.
{{quote-text|en|year=1910|author=Katherine Mansfield|title=Frau Brenchenmacher Attends A Wedding
A run.
{{quote-journal|en|author=Michael Vega|title=Triple double|journal=The Boston Globe|date=August 17 2011|page=C1
The center of the butt at which archers shoot; probably once a piece of white cloth or a nail head.
(RQ:Marlowe Tamburlaine)
(RQ:Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost)
A swaddling cloth.
(RQ:Spenser Faerie Queene)
(RQ:Shakespeare King John)
(RQ:Shakespeare Hamlet) a clout upon that headWhere late the diadem stood (..)
(quote-text)|title=The Pleasant, and Surprizing Adventures of Mr. Robert Drury, during his Fifteen Years Captivity on the Island of Madagascar|url=https://archive.org/details/pleasantandsurp00drurgoog|page=74|location=London
(quote-book), hooted and jeered from the battlements, "and let down their clouts and showed them their backsides."
An iron plate on an axletree or other wood to keep it from wearing; a washer.
(quote-text)
A nail.
(RQ:John Heywood Four PP)
To cover with cloth, leather, or other material; to bandage, patch, or mend with a clout.
(quote-book) University Press|University Press|year=1549|year_published=1844|page=110|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=npw9AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA110|oclc=593712845|passage=the Apostle|Paul, yea, and Peter|Peter, too, had more skill in mending an old net, and in clouting an old tent than to teach lawyers what diligence they should use in the expedition of matters.|footer=(small)
(dated form of)
{{quote-text|en|year=1948|title=The Essex Review
A patch (gloss).
Threadbare or inferior clothing.
Cloth for wrapping babies; clothes.
A washer; a round metal panel.
(alt form)