Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

parish pump politics

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.84 in modern English

Syllables: parish pump pol-i-tics
IPA

33

Scrabble Score

18

Letters

3

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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.

British usage; Derogatory; Informal; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"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."
"Unfortunately, the parish-pump politics this perpetuates is congenitally unsuited to deal with the demands of a modern European society."
"Where others looked at Canadian regionalism and saw a fruitful and admirable diversity of human experience, Laskin saw petty fiefdoms, parish pump politics, and constricted horizons."

Usage

Synonyms

parochialism provincialism

Questions

What does parish pump politics mean?: 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.

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