potboiler

• n. 粗制滥造的文艺作品；粗制滥造作品的人

pot,罐子，boil,煮。即罐子里面煮肉，引申词义不管好肉还是烂肉，只要是肉就行，用来比喻那些粗制滥造的电影或小说。

potboiler (n.)

also pot-boiler, 1864 in the figurative literary sense, from pot (n.1) + agent noun from boil (v.). The notion is of something one writes solely to put food on the table.

1. This is just another legal potboiler.

这就是另一本法律题材的烂作。

来自辞典例句