| 单词 | to play to the gallery |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto play to (also for) the gallery a. The assemblage of persons who occupy the gallery portion of a theatre, the ‘gods’; formerly often in plural. Hence figurative the less refined or instructed portion of the public. to play the gallery: to act the part of gallery-spectators. to play to (also for) the gallery: to address oneself to those in the gallery (also figurative). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > theatre-going > theatregoer > [noun] > theatre audience > occupants of specific seat or place > collectively gallery1649 box1677 side-box1685 gods1752 stall1901 the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (intransitive)] > look on or spectate to look onOE to look upona1470 to keep the ring1798 to play the gallery1870 spectate1929 the mind > language > speech > conversation > addressing or speaking to > address someone [verb (intransitive)] > address the gallery to play to (also for) the gallery1872 1649 R. Lovelace Lucasta: Epodes, Odes, Sonnets, Songs 77 He should have wove in one, two Comedies; The first for th' Gallery..Th' other for the Gentlemen oth' Pit. 1704 J. Trapp Abra-Mule Prol. 16 Nor bless the Gall'ries with the Sweets of Rhime. 1809 Ld. Byron Eng. Bards & Sc. Reviewers xxviii Kenney's ‘World’..Tires the sad gallery, lulls the listless pit. 1870 Echo 23 July 5/4 We were..constantly called in to ‘play the gallery’ to his witty remarks. 1872 Standard 23 Oct. 5/4 His dispatches were, indeed, too long and too swelling in phrase; for herein he was always ‘playing to the galleries’. 1878 H. Irving Stage 28 That same gallery which at first roared itself hoarse, while the play went on in dumb-show, became hushed in rapt admiration. 1890 Scotsman 18 Aug. He [Mr. Blaine] was playing for his Irish gallery. 1892 Law Times 92 156/1 We hope that..advocates will be courteous to judges, to opposing counsel, and to witnesses, and not play to the gallery. 1896 Westm. Gaz. 10 June 4/2 The ‘gallery’ will be most interested in the three couples [of golf players]. < as lemmas |
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