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pigs in the parlour en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (Ireland, UK, plural, plural-only) An allegory for a backward rural society.
    • Before 1968, what little coverage there was of Irish affairs was of the traditional 'pigs in the parlour' kind. 1986, Yonah Alexander, Alan O'Day, Ireland's terrorist dilemma, page 111: