sausagemaking

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

sausage +‎ making

Noun

sausagemaking (uncountable)

  1. The manufacture of sausages.
  2. (by analogy) Lawmaking.
    • 2004, Press Summary - Illinois Information Service:
      A freshman governor with little tolerance for legislative sausagemaking and a love for press conferences.
    • 2010, William B. Rouse, Denis A. Cortese, Engineering the System of Healthcare Delivery, →ISBN, page 455:
      In a complex process of legislative “sausagemaking,” legislative leaders assembled a bipartisan supermajority to win passage of this major reform.
    • 2010, Time - Volume 175, Issues 1-12, page 30:
      And White House officials admit they underestimated how ugly Capitol Hill's sausagemaking process would look in the spotlight, turning a debate about expanding health coverage, controlling costs and reining in the abuses of profit-obsessed insurers into a brawl over "death panels," taxpayer-funded abortions and congressional giveaways to Nebraska.
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