"As exciting as a mashed-potato sandwich" nghĩa là gì?

"As exciting as a mashed-potato sandwich" = như bánh sandwich khoai tây nghiền -> nghĩa là nhàm chán, tẻ nhạt.

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Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell’s first four-year term is steadily winding to a close, and observers are eagerly handicapping whether President Joe Biden will renominate the mauve-tied central banker or opt for a more progressive selection, such as Fed Board of Governors member Lael Brainard. For most Americans, the looming decision is as exciting as a mashed potato sandwich. But whoever helms the central bank over the next four years will have an outsized impact on how quickly the nation returns to normalcy after Covid-19.

The analogy to a “mashed-potato sandwich” was conjured up by Los Angeles Police Chief Ed Davis, Younger’s chief competitor for the GOP gubernatorial nomination (cuộc bổ nhiệm trong chính phủ). Well in advance of the June, 1978 primary, it was uttered to Los Angeles Times political writer Kenneth Reich during a car ride back to Los Angeles from Costa Mesa, where Davis had delivered an address. Reich’s write-up of his to-and-fro interviews appears in the Aug 7, 1977 issue of the Times. The precise phrase, as recited by Reich, was that Younger was “as exciting as a mashed-potato sandwich.”

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