单词 | peanut gallery |
释义 | > as lemmaspeanut gallery peanut gallery n. colloquial (freq. depreciative) the top gallery in a theatre or cinema, usually the location of the cheapest seats and hence regarded as the most vocal or rowdy section of the audience; also in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > auditorium > [noun] > gallery gallery1690 sky-parlour1747 amphitheatre1859 paradise1864 peanut gallery1876 nigger heaven1878 1876 Mountain Democrat (Placerville, Calif.) 10 June 2/1 As a bid for applause from the political pit and peanut gallery it was a masterpiece. a1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. III. 2476/2 The syrinx was used by the Romans as a noisy improvement on hissing... The occupants of our peanut galleries, however, use it indiscriminately for praise or blame. 1945 New Yorker 5 May 15/1 We were sitting in the peanut gallery of the Opera House. 1988 R. Caron Jojo i. 7 Chip..had plenty of encouragement from his private ‘peanut gallery’ of retired oldsters who sat day after day on a flat bench in front of the garage. 2003 Sacramento Bee (Nexis) 25 Dec. h1 Along comes another blast from the peanut gallery about the men being interview subjects. < as lemmas |
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