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English Idiom: Landslide victory
It is Thursday, so I am back with yet another English idiom.
I’m going to use another political analogy.
I use many political situations to explain phrases because idioms are continuously used in the English-speaking world to explain what is happening in politics.
Idioms are also regularly used in sports, and in future, I will be using more sports references.
But anyway, to get back to the matter at hand, I will explain the idiom landslide victory.
In the recent Tokyo gubernatorial election, Yuriko Koike achieved a landslide victory.
The number of people who voted for her more than doubled that of those who voted for her closest rival.
Yuriko Koike won the election by a considerable margin.
Landslide victory is often used in political elections to mean winning by a huge amount, but it is also used in sports and other competitions.
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