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儒琴英语词组(English Phrase of the Day)
salami tactics
Meaning
Salami tactics, also known as the salami-slice strategy, is a divide and conquer process of threats and alliances used to overcome opposition. With it, an aggressor can influence and eventually dominate a landscape, typically political, piece by piece. In this fashion, the opposition is eliminated “slice by slice” until one realizes that it is gone in its entirety.(wikipedia)
Salami是一种意大利香肠,常用刀削成小片吃. 这里比喻成“蚕食术”,和渐进战术,
Citations
By 1948, the Soviet Union had established communist regimes in all of the territories that they had “liberated” during World War Two. The Hungarian Communist Rakosi described this process as “Salami Tactics” because Stalin sliced away opposition bit by bit. (activehistory.co.uk)
Jul 8, 2019 – But if Iran is using salami tactics, Trump has used an axe. The result is that Washington is rapidly running out of diplomatic options.
(haaretz.com)