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four more years

four more years noun: another term in office for an incumbent president of the United States.

Noun

four more years

  1. (US) Another term in office for an incumbent president of the United States.
    • Four more years of roughly the same, then. Same dangers, deceptions, retreats; same large diplomatic ambitions abroad, and mean‐spirited placation at home.1972 November 5, Garry Wills, “Four more years? Learning to live with Nixon”, in The New York Times
    • “If I don't sleep for the next 16 days, it will seem like four more years,” the president joked.2001 January 6, Marc Lacey, “Clinton Keeps Fast Pace in Final Days”, in The New York Times

Interjection

four more years

  1. (US) A chant used to call for the reelection of a president of the United States, typically at a rally.
    • Ronald Reagan: Thank you. / Crowd: Four more years! Four more years! Four more years! / Ronald Reagan: Thank you very much. Thank you very much. I just told some people in Portland, you've... you've talked me into that four, and if the capital were on the West Coast, I'd go for forty.1984 October 23, 2:27 from the start, in President Reagan's Remarks at a Reagan-Bush Rally in Seattle, Washington on October 23, 1984
    • Trump laughed as attendees began chanting “four more years,” and he quipped that the clip would be shown on evening newscasts.2025 February 20, Brett Samuels, “White House crowd chants ‘four more years’ after Trump asks if he should run again”, in The Hill

Origin of four more years

From the four-year length of an American presidential term. Perhaps popularized by use as a slogan of Richard Nixon's reelection campaign; in 1972, an article in The Guardian on Nixon's victory referenced "the 'four more years' which his supporters have been chanting for all through this election," and the phrase was used as the title of a guerrilla documentary film on the 1972 Republican National Convention. The phrase is attested as early as 1956 in the song "Ike for Four More Years."

Questions about four more years

What does four more years mean?
Four more years means another term in office for an incumbent president of the United States.
What part of speech is four more years?
Four more years can be a noun or an interjection.

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