Meanings
- Alternative form of sausagemaking.
- uncountableThe manufacture of sausages.
Yet in Utica, New York, which has a strong Italian-American identity, families continue a tradition of dry-cured sausage-making brought over from southern Italy by their grand- and great-grandparents at the beginning of the twentieth century.
2010, Naomi Guttman, Max Wall, “Sausage in Oil: Preserving Italian Culture in Utica, NY”, in Cured, Smoked, and Fermented: Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery - uncountableLawmaking.
While true, politics are an important part of our society, and thanks to C-SPAN, we can watch the sausage-making happen live.
2012, Alison Dagnes, A Conservative Walks Into a Bar: The Politics of Political Humor, →ISBN, page xi1 more example
Gingrich demonstrated his lack of "sausage-making" skills by taking actions that were detrimental to holding coalitions together.
2001, Gregory Wawro, Legislative Entrepreneurship in the U.S. House of Representatives, →ISBN
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