Catchword: run the trap line

Filed under: English, Politics

Part of speech: v. phr.

Quotation: When somebody down in the—in the lower level of the operation—on the operational area wants to affect a change or doesn’t want to go along with the policy, they can run the trap line and go up through the back door and try to get somebody in your office to change it.

Article or Document Title:
“House Armed Services Committee Holds Hearing On Implementation Of Department Of Energy Reorganization”

Author:
Duncan Hunter

Article, document, publication, web site:
Political Transcripts by Federal Document Clearing House

Date of publication:
Mar. 2, 2000

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