English Dictionary

parish pump politics

名詞

アイルランド英語 軽蔑的 くだけた表現 不可算名詞

(Ireland, derogatory, informal) political activity that is more evidently concerned with addressing the immediate needs of the local electorate than with strategy that might affect the national interest.

日本語の意味

地域の住民の眼前の要求や利益に応えるため、国全体の戦略よりも地元密着の政策に重点を置いた、短絡的な政治活動を指す。 / 通常、皮肉的または批判的なニュアンスで用いられ、地域限定の有権者向けの即効性を重視した政治活動を意味する。

Parish pump politics is a term used in Ireland to describe local politics that focus on small, local issues.

意味（1）

(Ireland, derogatory, informal) political activity that is more evidently concerned with addressing the immediate needs of the local electorate than with strategy that might affect the national interest.

Thomas Bardel Brindley (1875) Hints, Humorous and Satirical, to all the world and his wife (Wit and humor), Simpkin, Marshall&Company, page 6: “7.—Never avoid bars or smoke-rooms, because in the former case you miss the chance of marrying a flirt, and in the latter of having your mind improved by local parish-pump politics, and your head broken by a fool in his cups.”