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单词 three-ring circus
释义

three-ring circus

noun

ˈthrē-ˈriŋ- How to pronounce three-ring circus (audio)
1
: a circus with simultaneous performances in three rings
2
: something wild, confusing, engrossing, or entertaining

Synonyms

  • babel
  • bedlam
  • circus
  • madhouse
  • scrum [British]
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Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web Feld shut down the three-ring circus in 2017 after a 146-year run. Jay Handelman, USA TODAY, 18 May 2022 But a general decline in newspaper readership and the recession of the 1990s, followed by a three-ring circus of corporate leadership at The Times, would be the undoing of the paper’s Orange County edition. Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2022 Stafford, after a career of haymakers with the dreadful Lions, was asked in one season to put the Rams in the NFL’s version of a three-ring circus, aka Super Bowl 56. Jay Paris, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022 The only three-ring circus in North America rolls into Columbia County on June 29. Joe Hotchkiss, ajc, 27 June 2021 Sunday presented something of a three-ring circus setting at Augusta. Doug Ferguson, Star Tribune, 4 Apr. 2021 Mahomes and his three-ring circus are a bad matchup for a lot of defenses, even good ones. Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 1 Oct. 2020 Motherhood can be hard, especially now when moms are homeschooling their kids, acting as short-order cooks, and playing ring master of a seriously crazy three-ring circus—all while trying to maintain their sanity. Katie Bowlby, Country Living, 7 May 2020 Co-owner Bobby Lee described it as a three-ring circus that happens to sell steaks. Chris Quintana, USA TODAY, 14 Apr. 2020 See More

Word History

First Known Use

1902, in the meaning defined at sense 1

three-ring circus

noun

as in circus
a place of uproar or confusion the house has been a three-ring circus ever since the kids got back from summer camp

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • circus
  • madhouse
  • bedlam
  • scrum
  • pandemonium
  • bustle
  • commotion
  • mess
  • disorder
  • racket
  • babel
  • noise
  • turmoil
  • chaos
  • din
  • ruckus
  • tumult
  • hell
  • clamor
  • disarray
  • clatter
  • muss
  • confusion
  • hubbub
  • brouhaha
  • shambles
  • havoc
  • disarrangement

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • heaven
  • organization
  • paradise
  • utopia
  • order
  • peace
  • arcadia
  • silence
  • calm
  • quiet
  • lull
  • orderliness
  • respite
  • stillness
  • hush
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