单词 | bread and circuses |
释义 | bread and circuses something, as extravagant entertainment, offered as an expedient means of pacifying discontent or diverting attention from a source of grievance. [1910-15; trans. of L panis et circenses; from a remark by the Roman satirist Juvenal on the limited desires of the Roman populace] |
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