sausage-making

English

Noun

sausage-making (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of sausagemaking
   1. The manufacture of sausages.
      • 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:

        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.

   2. Lawmaking.
      • 2001, Gregory Wawro, Legislative Entrepreneurship in the U.S. House of Representatives, →ISBN:

        Gingrich demonstrated his lack of "sausage-making" skills by taking actions that were detrimental to holding coalitions together.

      • 2012, Alison Dagnes, A Conservative Walks Into a Bar: The Politics of Political Humor, →ISBN, page xi:

        While true, politics are an important part of our society, and thanks to C-SPAN, we can watch the sausage-making happen live.