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- noun A paraphrase of or misattribution to Neville Chamberlain, who stated that "
peace for our time " would be the result of the Munich Agreement of 1938. - noun Used to evoke the situation where an
aggressor is beingappeased for the sake of delaying a (possibly inevitable)war - noun Used to evoke the idea of false political promises and false expectations.
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