Not P but another DFW question

[Mark Kohut]

To keep something in one's back-pocket as written here means to have a
remedy ready
if it is needed.  See back-pocket prescriptions, a wide definitional use,
it seems.

I think it cleverly carries this association: conservatives, wanting to
believe less government, less
pragmatic legislation is generally better, would rather let the real-world
solve things.....free-market uber alles,
that conservative belief.

And as clearly stated, it lets conservatives come off as in touch with the
real world while progressives are
out-of-touch "idealists".

On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 6:01 PM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> From "Authority and American Usage":
>
> As it is, though, liberals’ vanity tends to grant conservatives a monopoly
> on appeals to self-interest, enabling the conservatives to depict
> progressives as pie-in-the-sky idealists and themselves as real-world
> back-pocket pragmatists.
>
> What does "back-pocket" mean here?
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