bread and circuses 的定义
- something, as extravagant entertainment, offered as an expedient means of pacifying discontent or diverting attention from a source of grievance.
bread and circuses 近义词
等同于 happy hour
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更多bread and circuses例句
- As an example of good science-and-society policymaking, the history of fluoride may be more of a cautionary tale.
- As this list shows, punishments typically run to a short-ish jail sentence and/or a moderately hefty fine.
- Yes, Byrd—dead four-and-a-half years now—was a Kleagle in the Ku Klux Klan.
- The tasteless bread was transformed into a sweet cake that included ingredients, such as dried fruit and marzipan.
- Later that night, that same black-and-red banner would be seen again—in the column of marchers chanting for dead cops.
- She also practises etching, pen-and-ink drawing, as well as crayon and water-color sketching.
- I tell you, madam, most distinctly and emphatically, that it is bread pudding and the meanest kind at that.'
- No law of that country must exceed in words the number of letters in their alphabet, which consists only in two-and-twenty.
- In Tiefurt we partook of a magnificent collation consisting of a mug of beer, brown bread and sausage!
- Newhall Street, and a new thoroughfare made in continuation of Bread Street.