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单词 monkey show
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monkey show
monkey show n. a show or form of entertainment (such as a circus or fair) featuring monkeys or apes (sometimes figurative as the type of something either farcical or highly entertaining).
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1792 J. Dandridge Let. 1 Jan. in William & Mary Coll. Q. Hist. Mag. (1912) 20 158 Of all the foolish monkey-shows I ever was at, a Levee is the most so.
1837 Southern Literary Messenger 3 668/1 It reminds me of cuffee trying to peep under the canvass at a monkey show.
1928 Amer. Mercury Oct. 246/1 He gives monkey-shows at the expense of plays.
1991 A. Chaudhuri Strange & Sublime Addr. (1992) vii. 52 Passers-by in Calcutta break their journeys to work to stare at acrobats or a monkey-show on the pavement.
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