bread and circuses
Idiomatic translations of "bread and circuses"
Meanings of "bread and circuses"
English
a diversion and distraction in politics, usually in the form of entertainment for masses in order to achieve public approval.
"bread and circuses" in lyrics
What do you need freedom for?Kult
Each shop display bursts with prosperity.
Freedom... What do you need freedom for?
Don’t you have bread and circuses?
Eternal SpringEgor i Opizdenevshie
War hospitals, prehistoric men,
Poetry, medications,
Bread and circuses (***)
showing mandatory underground medical procedures
Eternal SpringGrazhdanskaya Oborona
Hundreds of years of snowdrifts, Lazaruses, pithecantropuses1, poems, medicine, bread and circuses2, mandatory healing procedures underground for the hunched and crooked-
Eternal spring in solitary confinement
1. an extinct species between an ape and a human
2. an ...
Bread and CircusesOs Mutantes
I wanted to sing
a song illuminated by the sun
I raised the sails to the wind
I freed the tigers and the lions in the yard
Rock bottomĐorđe Balašević
Rock bottom.
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Rock bottom.
1. A parody on Panem et circenses, Latin for Bread and circuses
ColosseumAria
It is revenge o’clock
Bread and circuses for people
Always there!
AdagioWIZO
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It doesn't work, and you've known it for a while now.
You close your eyes, you don't want to admit it,
It's failed, your shitty system!
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Eternal SpringEgor i Opizdenevshie
Lazareths, pithecantropuses 1,
poems, medicine,
bread and circuses, mandatory
underground healing procedures
1. an extinct species between an ape and a human
Satanic AnarchyKreator
And in this dying Endzeit
Not all that melts is gold
Keep your bread and circuses
And learn this is divine revolt
Circus of DoomBattle Beast
Ashes to ashes
And dust to dust
Bread and circuses to masses
Lust turning to disgust
ColosseumAria
The hour of reckoning has come
Bread and circuses for the people
Is in abundance!
IntropatijaT.B.F
From whatever in the newspapers, is written in small scripture.
But it seems like this is natural,
The majority only thirst for bread and circuses,
In the society of abundance, of cloned plants and meat,
Giotto BeatCaparezza
Ye[ah] ye[ah], ye[ah] ye[ah]!1
We're slow lenses2, we need a photokit.
We pass the buck without any prospect 3:
1. Mimicking the "yeahs" that were present in a lot of songs composed during the 60s: some examples are "She loves you" and "It won't be long" by The Beatles
2. Italians self-identify as ...
Totalitarian TerrorKreator
Come experience hate like you never have before
Spreading from the fallen Tower of Babel
Bread and circuses means
To keep us from the truth
Black, dead and goldLord of the Lost
Black, dead and gold are my colours
I'm a king amongst crows, oh-oh
Bread and circuses for the poor
I see you waving my flags
am I my own enemyRenie Cares
Pulled together just by a thread that leaves burns
And only blood interests if it's about communion
Because the body wants bread, bread and circuses
And my happiness should be almost imperceptible
DocAurora (Hungary)
The street is yours, the square is mine
Freedom is precious like gold!
I'm loading rail wagons with the help of a dentist
Who has picked a bone with fate
Poo-Tang ClanTrailerpark
But this isn't about crossing the limits
No, we only feed the people their big love
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1. Reference to the expression 'bread and circuses'
Beyond The RulesEpidemia
God of war is waiting for a great sacrifice.
He’d measured equally a bread and circuses on his scales
To those who believe and see a dreams,
Third StepKyo
To be completely sure that it was me
Bread and circuses to make us believe
That the sea is more beautiful without its waves






