单词 | one-man show |
释义 | Example sentences from the Web for one-man show
one-man showAlso, one-man band. A person who does or manages just about everything, as in This department is a one-man show—the chairman runs it all, or John conducts the interviews, writes the articles, solicits ads, deals with the printer—he's a one-man band. This idiom alludes to the actor or artist responsible for the entire performance or exhibit, or the musician who plays every instrument in the group. [First half of 1900s] Words nearby one-man showone-legged, one-liner, one-lung, one-lunger, one-man, one-man show, One man's meat is another man's poison, one-many, on end, oneness, one-nighter The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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