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a committee is a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours
Committees take a very long time to accomplish something, if they accomplish anything at all. A pun on "minutes," which is a record of what is discussed at a particular meeting. A: "The task force has been in a meeting all day! How can they not have reached a decision by now?" B: "Well, a committee is a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours."
ginger group
A small group of people within a political party or organization who attempt to influence the other members of the group. Primarily heard in UK, Australia. The party was staunchly conservative until the ginger group slowly started shifting them to a more liberal stance on social issues.
group someone or something around someone or something
to gather people or things around people or things. The photographer grouped the wedding party around the bride for the picture. The photographer then grouped them around the cake.
group someone or something together
to gather people or things together. Try to group all the smokers together at one table. Steve grouped all the dictionaries together.
group something under something
to classify something under some category. They have now grouped the fungi under their own families. We should group all the older ones under a separate category.
nose someone or a group out
to defeat someone or something by a narrow margin. (Alludes to a horse winning a race "by a nose.") Karen nosed Bobby out in the election for class president by one vote. Our team nosed out the opposing team in last Friday's game.
a ginger group
(British & Australian) a small group within a larger political party or organization that tries to persuade the other members to accept their beliefs and ideas He was soon won over to the left wing as a member of a marginal ginger group called the New Beginning.
splinter group
A part of an organization that breaks away from the main body, usually owing to disagreement. For example, Perot's supporters at first constituted a splinter group but soon formed a third political party . This idiom alludes to the noun splinter, a fragment of wood or some other material that is split or broken off. [Mid-1900s]
group-grope
n. a real or imagined group of people engaged in sexual activities. That party turned into a hopeless group-grope.