单词 | horse opera |
释义 | > as lemmashorse opera horse opera n. colloquial (originally U.S.) a ‘Western’ film or television series. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > a film > type of film > [noun] > western wild western1864 western1910 horse opera1927 oat opera1937 oater1946 shoot-'em-up1953 spaghetti Western1969 shooter1981 1927 Motion Picture Classic 2 July 26/1 Horse Opera..is an opus of the West where men are cowboys. 1948 ‘J. Tey’ Franchise Affair xix. 227 That happens only in detective-stories and the last few minutes of horse-operas. 1957 E. Hyams Into Dream 244 An officer who looked like a bad-man Mexican in an early horse-opera. 1958 Times 17 Nov. 8/6 21 per cent. of the available time is devoted to westerns (28 of these ‘horse-opera’ series are being broadcast). < as lemmas |
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