`Bread and circuses` (or bread and games) (from Latin: panem et circenses) is metonymic for a superficial means of appeasement. In the case of politics, the phrase is used to describe the creation of public approval, not through exemplary or excellent public service or public policy, but through diversion; distraction; or the mere satisfaction o.....
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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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