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pork barrel

猪肉桶,猪肉盒,猪肉筒,猪肉棒

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Informal.

    • : a government appropriation, bill, or policy that supplies funds for local improvements designed to ingratiate legislators with their constituents.

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Examples

  • Roll the pork over the stuffing, like a jelly roll, until the seam is facing down and the fat back is on top.

  • While the pork is resting, heat a large, heavy-bottomed pan over medium-high heat.

  • Lay the butterflied pork loin on the cutting board with the fat cap facing down.

  • Veselka layered its latke with pork goulash, and Toloache added beef short rib chorizo.

  • Hitchcock's going on about English pork butchers and how best to prepare pork cracklings.

  • One hundred to the right barrel—nothing left for the second barrel!

  • It wasn't any scruple of mercy, for Hicks was as cold-blooded a brute as ever glanced down a gun-barrel.

  • A Laplander who cannot get Tobacco sucks chips of a barrel or pieces of anything else which has contained it.

  • In the fall the barrel of his rifle had been so covered with dead leaves and dust that he could not take aim.

  • The second barrel was discharged with no better result, except that a splinter of its horn was knocked off.