blow-in

n. an outsider; a carpetbagger. Subjects: English, Politics

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Citations: 1995 Yvonne Preston The Age (Australia) (May 11) “Medical Mystery”: On Saturday, Bradfield’s 190 pre-selectors will declare the result of this young bull/old bull stoush between the 36-year-old blow-in from Hobart, and the white-haired David Connolly, who is nearing the end of his political career after 21 years on a margin which rarely slipped below 23 per cent. 1998 Alan Ramsey Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) (Oct. 31) “Poll Proves High Profiles Count”: The Government hypes the professed wisdom that Kernot was a high-profile “blow-in” who almost failed because the voters of Dickson, in Brisbane’s southern suburbs, wouldn’t accept a political carpetbagger. 1999 Joe Carroll Irish Times (Dublin, Ireland) (July 10) “Hillary attracts media circus on her upstate ‘listening tour,’ leaving Bill down on an Indian reservation”: Rudy Giuliani has been plugging away at the carpetbagger charge and plans his own fundraiser in Arkansas to highlight her New York “blow-in” status. 2004 Dale Russakoff @ Boston, Mass. Washington Post (July 25) “Discipline and Ambition Overcame First Defeat”: Kerry swept the district’s upscale suburbs, but not the mill towns, where unemployment was rising as jobs fled. There, locals tagged Kerry with their own slang for carpetbagger: “blow-in.”

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Reader comments:

In the newspaper/magazine world, a “blow-in” is a separate sheet of advertising that is inserted between the pages of the newspaper/magazine by air pressure.

/s/ globalnomad

by globalnomad 16 Aug 04, 0649 GMT

That’s right. It’s really too common for inclusion as a full entry here, however.

by Grant Barrett 16 Aug 04, 0653 GMT