DCHP-3

Clear Grit

[< Am. E clear grit obstinate, unflinching]
Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a supporter of the movement which took form as the Clear Grit Party; an adherent of the Clear Grit Party.

Quotations

1849
Though it is highly desirable to carry some of the objects of the "clear grits" into effect, the circumstances of their coquetting with the ULTRA TORY party is sufficient to excite suspicion, and to put real Reformers on their guard.
1906
Yet in all the history of a quarrelsome period in politics there is no more violent quarrel than that between Brown and the Clear Grits.
1963
The Clear Grits [1850's] were the first to hear the cry: "Why don't you merge with the Liberals?"