group Idiom

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Group of Five

(See The Group of Five)

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Group of Seven

(See The Group of Seven)

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The Group of Five/ The Regina Five

artists K. Lockhead, A. McKay, D. Morton, T. Godwin, R. Bloore The Group of Five are famous for their bold, abstract paintings.

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The Group of Seven

Canadian painters who formed a group in 1917 Do you know the names of the artists in The Group of Seven?

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pressure group|group|pressure

n. phr. An organization whose goal it is to create changes by lobbying for the benefit of its own members. Certain unscrupulous pressure groups stop at nothing to achieve their selfish aims.

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splinter group

splinter group
A part of an organization that breaks away from the main body, usually owing to disagreement. For example, Perot's supporters at first constituted a splinter group but soon formed a third political party. This idiom alludes to the noun splinter, a fragment of wood or some other material that is split or broken off. [Mid-1900s]