English Dictionary

pot boiler

名詞

軽蔑的 軽度

(mildly derogatory) A creative work of low quality (book, art, etc), produced merely to earn a living or for profit, as opposed to serious creative expression. As in to put food on the table, to boil a pot of food.

日本語の意味

利益や生計を立てるためだけに制作された、質が低い創作作品（小説、美術など）のこと。 / 真摯な芸術的表現や文学性よりも、単に生活費を稼ぐ目的で作られた作品を指す（軽蔑的な意味合いを含む）。

The novelist admitted that his latest novel was nothing more than a pot boiler written to pay the bills.

その小説家は、最新作が生活費を稼ぐために書かれたただの駄作に過ぎないと認めた。

意味（1）

(mildly derogatory) A creative work of low quality (book, art, etc), produced merely to earn a living or for profit, as opposed to serious creative expression. As in to put food on the table, to boil a pot of food.

Arists and novelists of a certain stamp joke about ‘pot-boilers’, the name facetiously given to hasty, worthless pictures and books[…]]

意味（2）

(archeology) A stone used to transfer heat from a fire into a vessel of water, so as to heat the contents.

pot boilers （ plural ）