guns and butter

Noun

Meaning

guns and butter pl (plural only)

Defense and social government spending, especially when seen as a trade-off.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

There is no conservative party in Washington. There is a Democratic Party of tax-and-spend and a Republican Party of guns and butter and tax cuts, too. Washington is all accelerator, the brakes are gone. Pat Buchanan

Close letter words and terms

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