Definitions

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  • noun The manufacture of sausages.

Etymologies

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sausage +‎ making

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Examples

  • By and large the columnists I read are pretty good writers, and some of them have useful and even novel insights into the electoral sausagemaking process.

    Mark T.R. Donohue: Skirting (and Pantsing) Around the Issues 2007

  • And, as if that's not enough, they're planning to open a brasserie in the basement, and will also run cookery classes on subjects such as sausagemaking.

    The Guardian World News Fiona Beckett 2011

  • He's not going quietly, and every move Humphries makes probably increases the amount of the settlement that I believe Kardashian will ultimately pay to avoid having the sausagemaking secrets behind reality TV exposed in court.

    www.startribune.com 2012

  • And even if there were still 60 Democrats in the Senate, the health care saga demonstrated the difficulty of keeping them all on board without watering down the legislation, infuriating the party's base and ultimately disgusting the electorate through extended exposure to the sausagemaking process.

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2010

  • And even if there were still 60 Democrats in the Senate, the health care saga demonstrated the difficulty of keeping them all on board without watering down the legislation, infuriating the party's base and ultimately disgusting the electorate through extended exposure to the sausagemaking process.

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2010

  • A glance through the reality TV sausagemaking stories shows that the executives behind them are as ruthlessly fickle as the audience.

    Jezebel 2010

  • And even if there were still 60 Democrats in the Senate, the health care saga demonstrated the difficulty of keeping them all on board without watering down the legislation, infuriating the party's base and ultimately disgusting the electorate through extended exposure to the sausagemaking process.

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2010

  • And even if there were still 60 Democrats in the Senate, the health care saga demonstrated the difficulty of keeping them all on board without watering down the legislation, infuriating the party's base and ultimately disgusting the electorate through extended exposure to the sausagemaking process.

    ModerateVoters.org 2010

  • 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.

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2010

  • 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.

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2010

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