parish pump
Britishadjective
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Best picture, best director and best international feature have gone to a movie which really deserves it, a film from beyond the Los Angeles parish pump.
From The Guardian
Instead of gladhanding constituents and attending funerals, two traditional elements of Ireland’s parish pump politics, Varadkar prefers to read policy papers and strategise with aides.
From The Guardian
"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
"Why the UN Can't Solve the World's Problems" ran an accusatory headline over the weekend in the New York Times, a newspaper that's something of a parish pump for UN diplomats.
From BBC
And a bonny rumpus there wor yo mind, for yo may think ha it wor conducted when they wur threapin wi wun another like a lot o’ oud wimen at a parish pump when it sud be.
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