skirt and blouse

skirt and blouse
 n.β€” Β«George Isaac Amoo, has called on all supporters of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) to vote for both the NPP’s Presidential and parliamentary candidates or what he termed “Kaba and slit” instead of voting for President Kufour but voting for parliamentary candidates of other parties, in what is now known in local political parlance as “skirt and blouse.”Β» β€”β€œVote Kaba & Slit, Not Skirt & Blouse” GhanaHomePage (Ghana) Nov. 22, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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