card-carrying

Related to card-carrying: outrageous, airing, gruntle, unblinking, vaunted, slanging match

card-carrying

Certified for inclusion; having paid the necessary amount in full. I never knew until he was on his deathbed that my father was a card-carrying Freemason. I'm afraid only card-carrying members of the union can be given any regular shifts on the docks.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • paid-up
  • paid-up member (of something)
  • a card-carrying member (of something)
  • a paid-up member, etc.
  • card-carrying member
  • member
  • fully
  • be a (fully) paid-up member of something
  • be a card-carrying member (of something)
  • charge (something) on (something)
References in periodicals archive
* Your two book reviews on the death penalty (NCR, July 15) gave encouragement to the hundreds (thousands?) of us who are "card-carrying opponents of capital punishment." Those of us who have signed the "Declaration of Life" always have a small card on our person that says that if we are killed by a violent crime, we do not want the person found guilty to be subjected to the death penalty.
Trinette Blackwell is a card-carrying patron of the Prince George's County, Maryland, library system.
Eugene Corvaja, as a card-carrying member of the Communist Party, made contacts there, and his engagement with the country became rather different to Lewis's, but it gave them both a greater insight into the unrest.
My own country, Ghana, is now fortunate to be a card-carrying member of the democratic nations and now is the time to gear towards unity in national development.
I prefer to be a card-carrying member of the party of life."
Monturiol, a "card-carrying, utopian communist," according to Stewart, hoped to make the oceans safe for all working-class people toiling there.
CHATTING to Pete Waterman the other day, I was delighted to find out that the pop impresario is a card-carrying old-car nutter.
I am a proud "card-carrying" member, and only wish I had George Soros' fortune to bestow upon AU.
House Speaker Pro Tem Jetton, a card-carrying member of the Christian Coalition and the NRA, finds heckling to be a God-given, free speech right.
Admission will be pounds 1 for the afternoon and pounds 2 for the evening or free to card-carrying CAMRA members.
In 1969, competitor First Hawaiian announced that it planned to introduce Master Charge to the Islands, and embarked on an aggressive program to line up merchants and card-carrying consumers.
The Salford-born activist was once a card-carrying Communist but he mellowed and accepted a peerage by the time Britain was hit by the Winter of Discontent in 1978.
In their place, the architects of the war chose card-carrying Republicans--operatives, flacks, policy-wonks and lobbyists--for almost every key assignment in the country.
I've been a card-carrying member of Group 3 for over 40 years.
To whip up a wireless LAN, you'll need to buy a wireless network access point, which connects to your network switch or gateway router and ties your card-carrying 802.11 devices together as a network.