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sausage making en · NOUN

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1. (uncountable) Alternative form of sausagemaking. ▸ The manufacture of sausages.
   • Although the first steps of sausage making such as meat selection, curing, grinding, mixing and stuffing initially seem to be the same, under closer examination it becomes clear that they have to be finely tuned to new safety requirements. 2012, Home Production of Quality Meats and Sausages, →ISBN, page 335:
   • A sausage stuffer is an essential tool for sausage making. 2014, Ryan Farr -, Sausage Making: The Definitive Guide with Recipes, →ISBN, page 14:
2. (uncountable) Alternative form of sausagemaking. ▸ Lawmaking.
   • James Wooten's book provides an excellent summary of the legislative “sausage making” and political gamesmanship during the development of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), an extremely important piece of legislation that hs touched millions of lives. 2012, Sylvester J. Schieber, The Predictable Surprise: The Unraveling of the U.S. Retirement System, →ISBN:
   • "I want to emphasize: Washington is so impersonal," she said. "Imagine your worst impression of what it would be like and then magnify that. It's removed. It's physically removed. You get caught up in the sausage making." 2018, Jeanne Marie Laskas, To Obama, With love, joy, hate and despair, →ISBN, page 226:
   • And as long as elected officials find it impossible to refocus public attention from sausage making to sausage tasting, they will be caught in a vicious circle in which looking good during the process becomes an all-consuming aspect of governance. 2001, Thomas J. Volgy, Politics in the Trenches: Citizens, Politicians, and the Fate of Democracy, →ISBN, page 115: