English
Noun
bread and circuses (uncountable)
- Food and entertainment provided by the state.
- 22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games
- In movie terms, it suggests Paul Verhoeven in Robocop/Starship Troopers mode, an R-rated bloodbath where the grim spectacle of children murdering each other on television is bread-and-circuses for the age of reality TV, enforced by a totalitarian regime to keep the masses at bay.
- Grand spectacles to distract and pacify people.
Translations
food and entertainment provided by the state
- Basque: ogia eta zirku
- Belarusian: хле́ба і відо́вішчаў (xljéba i vidóviščaŭ) (only in genitive case)
- Breton: bara ha c'hoarioù
- Catalan: pa i circ
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 麵包與馬戲, 面包与马戏 (miànbāo yǔ mǎxì)
- Czech: chléb a hry
- Dutch: brood en spelen
- Esperanto: pano kaj ludoj
- Estonian: leib ja tsirkus
- Finnish: leipä ja sirkushuvit
- French: du pain et des jeux
- German: Brot und Zirkusspiele, Brot und Spiele
- Greek: άρτον και θεάματα (el) (árton kai theámata)
- Icelandic: brauði og leikum
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- Japanese: パンとサーカス (pan to sākasu)
- Latin: panem et circenses
- Occitan: de pan e de jòcs
- Polish: chleba i igrzysk (only in genitive case)
- Portuguese: pão e circo m
- Romanian: pâine și circ
- Russian: хле́ба и зре́лищ (ru) (xléba i zrélišč) (only in genitive case)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: хлеба и игара, хљеба и игара, круха и игара, крува и игара (only in genitive case)
- Roman: hleba i igara, hljeba i igara, kruha i igara, kruva i igara (only in genitive case)
- Spanish: pan y circo
- Swedish: bröd och skådespel
- Turkish: ekmek ve sirkler, ekmek ve sirk oyunları
- Ukrainian: хлі́ба і видо́вищ (xlíba i vydóvyšč) (only in genitive case)
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