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Figure of speech dating from Roman antiquity
"Bread and circuses" is a metonymic phrase referring to superficial appeasement. It is attributed to Juvenal (Satires, Satire X), a Roman poet active in the late first and early second century AD, and is used commonly in cultural, particularly political, contexts. Wikipedia