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Bread and circuses

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Food and entertainment provided by the state, particularly if intended to placate the people.

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noun
  1. 1

    Food and entertainment provided by the state, particularly if intended to placate the people.

  2. 2

    (by extension) Grand spectacles staged or statements made to distract and pacify people.

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