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長物  [ちょうぶつ]  [無用の長物]    meaning:  unnecessary  rank: 4
☆ 市民たない政府など無用の長物以外何物でもない ⇨ A government that won’t serve the benefit of its citizens is nothing but a useless long thing  (☛ Literally “long thing”. Something that consumes a lot of resource (without any benefit). Only used as an idiom)