tin-pot dictatorship

Meaning: (idiomatic,derogatory)Acountryruled by atin-pot dictator; anautocracy, especially one ruled by someone withdelusionsofgrandeur.1979, John Wainwright,Death of a Big Man, Berkley,→ISBN, page37:And, if so, why not the arms-dealer who sells his products to sometin-pot dictatorship, knowing that they will be used to slaughter innocent women and kids?2007, John Hossein Ghazvinian,Untapped, Harcourt,→ISBN:Though venality rather than thuggery is the dominant characteristic of the Gabonese political system, to an outsider the distinction is not always clear and the country can look like a classictin-pot dictatorship—a sort of banana republic (with the part of the bananas played by Cameroonian understudies)2017, Ramachandra Guha,India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy, Pan Macmillan,→ISBN:Speaking of the suspension of habeas corpus, and the curbs on the press, he warned that Mrs Gandhi was turning her country into a 'tin-pot dictatorship'.

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