单词 | peanut gallery |
释义 | peanut gallerynoun1 : the upper balcony of a theater Carnegie Hall was packed, the balconies rising row on row, full, even to the "peanut gallery." Lady Bird Johnson also : a section of cheap seats in a theater or the group of spectators seated there I don't even get to sit with Megan since she's real high society and I'm just her … fiancée. I'll be down in the peanut gallery with the low-lifes … John Ringo 2 : a group of critics or commentators likened to spectators in the cheap seats of a theater But even so, last year's adaptation … reaped more backlash from critics than its pop-blockbuster excellence deserved. The peanut gallery didn't like director Gary Ross's handheld camerawork … Ross Douthat The announcement that "The Inheritance of Loss" had won the Booker was met (as these announcements always are) with a few gripes from the peanut gallery in Britain. Dwight Garner |
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