how the sausage gets made

how the sausage gets made

The process by which something is created or conducted away from public view. Typically refers to something that the average person would find unpleasant or unsavory, in the same way that making sausages might be off-putting to some. I know you don't like to accept the closed-door deals that go on in politics, but this is how the sausage gets made! Nearly everyone in the country has a smartphone, totally oblivious to the dire effects their production has on the planet and on the lives of workers who assemble them. But, as ever, people don't want to know how the sausage gets made.
See also: get, how, made, sausage
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • (I) wouldn't (do something) if I were you
  • a walking
  • a walking (something)
  • a fast talker
  • a/the feel of (something)
  • a straw will show which way the wind blows
  • a crack at (someone or something)
  • all right
  • (you) wanna make something of it?
  • all for the best