ginger group

plural ginger groups

1. A group adding impetus or spirit on a particular topic, especially within a political party or other organization.

   There Drona’s son became a one-man ginger group, loudly advocating a more socialist direction to party policy.

   1989, Shashi Tharoor, chapter 102, in The Great Indian Novel, page 344

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   Would not a German Minister of Propaganda, or a German Committee on War Aims, wishing to stimulate active support for the War among the German masses, be well advised to circulate some of the resolutions that have been passed by certain bodies in England and scatter them broadcast in Central Europe, with a few careful glosses and comments to point the moral? They would be a valuable asset for a German “ginger group.”

   1918, Alfred Hopkinson, chapter 5, in Rebuilding Britain: A Survey of Problems of Reconstruction after the World War, page 44

   The first local ginger group came into existence in 1796, when typhus among cotton-mill employees led public-spirited Manchester physicians to organise an ad hoc health board.

   1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 394