Template:WOTD

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could not get elected dogcatcher phrase

(idiomatic, chiefly US, politics, hyperbolic) Said of someone, particularly a politician, who is extremely unpopular. Today is Election Day in the United States. As this is a presidential election year, voters will be casting ballots for the President and Vice President.

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Usage

This template is used for creating the Word of the Day that appears on the Wiktionary Main Page, and for archiving such WOTDs at pages in the format "Wiktionary:Word of the day/Archive/[year]/[month]".

Sample template

{{WOTD|[word]|[part of speech]|tl=|[Brief definition.]|comment=|[month]|[day]}}

Parameters

Parameter	Remarks
1st parameter	mandatory: The Word of the Day, which should be one of the lemmas (main entries) in Wiktionary.
2nd parameter	mandatory: The part of speech of the word. It is suggested that you use the following abbreviations: adj adjective interj interjection prep preposition proverb proverb adv adverb n noun pron pronoun v verb conj conjunction phrase phrase proper n proper noun
link	By default, the template links to the top of the English section of an entry. To have the template link to a different heading, use this parameter to specify the heading name, like this: |link=Verb.
term-label or tl to term-label8 or tl8	A label that applies to all the senses of an entry: see {{term-label}} for more information. Up to eight labels can be added, like this: |tl=idiomatic|tl2=chiefly|tl3=US.
3rd parameter	mandatory: The definition of the word. If the word has numerous definitions, choose some of them to highlight. You may wish to use "[...]" to indicate omissions. The number "1." will be automatically inserted before the first definition, but you will need to add "#" before second and subsequent definitions. Do not include any {{defdate}}, {{synonyms}}, or {{antonyms}} templates; usage examples; or quotations.
4th and 5th parameters	mandatory: The 4th parameter should be the month spelled out (e.g., "January"), and the 5th parameter should be the day of the month indicated as a number with no leading zero (e.g., "1").
6th parameter or comment	A comment about the word; for example, the reason why the word was selected to be featured on a particular date.
audio	The name of an audio file indicating how the word is pronounced. The template will try to default to files in the following formats: En-us-[entry].oga and En-uk-[entry].oga. En-us-[entry].ogg, En-uk-[entry].ogg, and En-au-[entry].ogg. En-us-[entry].flac and En-uk-[entry].flac. En-us-[entry].mp3 and En-uk-[entry].mp3. If these files do not exist, then no link to an audio file will be displayed, unless a filename is specified using the parameter like this: |audio=whipsmart.flac. However, it is strongly recommended that you name and upload audio pronunciation files in the standard format starting with En-us-, En-uk-, etc. To suppress an audio file which exists, use |audio=no.