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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.
📖 Definitions of "Bread and circuses"
noun
- 1
Food and entertainment provided by the state, particularly if intended to placate the people.
- 2
(by extension) Grand spectacles staged or statements made to distract and pacify people.
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