Pinprick Policy

This article deals with the political catchphrase politics of pinpricks . On the policy of small needle pricks towards the Danish minority in Schleswig-Holstein from 1945 to 1956, see Policy of small needle sticks (Schleswig-Holstein)

Pinprick politics or pinprick politics is a widely used political catchphrase that describes, mostly critically, a policy that uses a variety of small, uncomfortable measures to exert pressure to achieve a larger goal.

Example of the use of the expression "policy of pinpricks" a product of the time from 1963, based on an economic embargo against the Soviet Union, to large pipes extended ( pipe embargo ).

The catchphrase is derived from the use of speech: "To constantly pinprick someone", meaning "to irritate him with little malice, allusions".

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hans Schemann: Deutsche Idiomatik: Dictionary of German idioms in context , Walter de Gruyter, 2011, p. 623 [1]
2. ↑ Politics of the needles in zeit.de
3. ↑ Der Grosse Duden, Volume 2, p. 421 [2]