Sentences with phrase «whipping pack of hounds»
«As the independence of members of the House of Commons has decreased under the system of party discipline — it is known as «whipping» by analogy with the fox hunting practice of whipping pack of hounds into order for the pursuit — so both the quality and reputation of MPs has declined, rendering them even less likely to behave independently.
https://blog.politics.ox.ac.uk/ Not exact matches
The Oxford English Dictionary defines the term whipper - in as, «a huntsman's assistant who keeps the hounds from straying by driving them back with the whip into the main body of the pack».
«Chief whip» is suitably 19th century when ordering around a pack of hounds but, by all accounts, she'll be herding cats, and picky ones at that.