potboiler

• n. 粗製濫造的文藝作品；粗製濫造作品的人

pot,罐子，boil,煮。即罐子裏麵煮肉，引申詞義不管好肉還是爛肉，隻要是肉就行，用來比喻那些粗製濫造的電影或小說。

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.

這就是另一本法律題材的爛作。

來自辭典例句