| slovo | definícia |
peanut gallery
(encz) | peanut gallery, n: |
Peanut gallery
(gcide) | Peanut gallery \Pea"nut gal"ler*y\
1. The cheapest seats in a theater, being typically those
farthest from the stage, as in the uppermost balcony.
[PJC]
2. In a television show for children, the section where
visiting children sit as guests during the performance.
[PJC]
3. Hence: Any group of children, or the chidren in a group of
people; as, let's have no noise from the peanut gallery.
[Colloq.]
[PJC] |
peanut gallery
(wn) | peanut gallery
n 1: (figurative) people whose criticisms are regarded as
irrelevant or insignificant (resembling uneducated people
who throw peanuts on the stage to express displeasure with
a performance); "he ignored complaints from the peanut
gallery"
2: rearmost or uppermost area in the balcony containing the
least expensive seats [syn: second balcony, {family
circle}, upper balcony, peanut gallery] |
| | podobné slovo | definícia |
peanut gallery
(encz) | peanut gallery, n: |
peanut gallery
(wn) | peanut gallery
n 1: (figurative) people whose criticisms are regarded as
irrelevant or insignificant (resembling uneducated people
who throw peanuts on the stage to express displeasure with
a performance); "he ignored complaints from the peanut
gallery"
2: rearmost or uppermost area in the balcony containing the
least expensive seats [syn: second balcony, {family
circle}, upper balcony, peanut gallery] |
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