English Dictionary

caucus race

名詞

慣用表現

(originally Britain, idiomatic) A laborious but arbitrary and futile activity; an activity that amounts to running around in a circle, expending great energy but not accomplishing anything.

日本語の意味

大きな労力を費やしても何の成果も得られない、空回りするだけの無益な活動 / 大量のエネルギーを注ぐが、結果としては無意味な努力に終わる状況

Organizing endless meetings to chase outdated statistics felt like a caucus race, draining everyone's energy while yielding nothing useful.

古い統計を追うために延々と会議を続けるのは骨折り損の徒労のようで、皆の気力を消耗するだけで何も生み出さなかった。

意味（1）

(originally Britain, idiomatic) A laborious but arbitrary and futile activity; an activity that amounts to running around in a circle, expending great energy but not accomplishing anything.

With the dominant figure in U.S. politics forced to the sidelines for—perhaps—the rest of the year, the national political situation last week began to take on the unreal air of the Dodo's caucus race.

意味（2）

A win-win system; a positive system in which everybody wins.

Encourage caucus race resourcing: […] That is, the resourcing of the players would need to resemble the “caucus race” in Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland – a race in which all the contestants won prizes. The best-known institutional arrangements for resourcing all legitimate comers in a regulatory system is the “subsidiary” doctrine […] Resources are not necessarily to be equated with cash: and indeed an alternative way of structuring a “caucus race” is for government to promote the transfer of talent among different institutions […]

caucus races （ plural ）