官かん官かん接せっ待たい

noun

bureaucrats entertaining bureaucrats using public funds

A yojijukugo referring to the practice of government officials wining and dining other officials at taxpayer expense, often with the implication of corruption or misuse of public money.

• 官かん官かん接せっ待たいは税ぜい金きんの無む駄だ遣づかいとして批ひ判はんされた。

  Bureaucrats entertaining bureaucrats was criticized as a waste of tax money.

• その県けんでは官かん官かん接せっ待たいが常じょう態たい化かしていた。

  In that prefecture, bureaucrats entertaining bureaucrats had become the norm.