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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024bread′ and cir′cuses, - something, as extravagant entertainment, offered as an expedient means of pacifying discontent or diverting attention from a source of grievance.
- 1910–15; translation of Latin pānis et circēnsēs; from a remark by the Roman satirist Juvenal on the limited desires of the Roman populace
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