Not P but another DFW question

Mike Jing gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com
Wed Nov 30 23:01:10 UTC 2022


>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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