parish pump
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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"He didn't like having to write down which was the biggest marrow. The parish pump stuff clearly didn't appeal to him."
From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2015
Perhaps "digital hubs" sound cooler or something, like a modern form of the parish pump.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 6, 2010
But he brought stature to the parish pump, and in time the musical world acknowledged him a master.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Notice is hereby given that any person or persons found damaging the parish pump will be prosecuted," it ran, but the pump I did not find.
From Highways and Byways in Surrey by Thomson, Hugh
The parish pump is close enough to spoil St Stephen's as an Imperial Council, and yet so far away as to destroy its effectiveness as an organ of local government.
From The Open Secret of Ireland by Kettle, T. M. (Thomas Michael)
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