bread and circuses
面包和马戏团,面包和马戏,面包和马戏表演,面包与马戏团
Definitions
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- : something, as extravagant entertainment, offered as an expedient means of pacifying discontent or diverting attention from a source of grievance.
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Examples
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.