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double feature
noun
- a motion-picture program consisting of two films shown one after the other for the price of a single ticket.
double feature
noun
- films a programme showing two full-length films Informal name (US)twin bill
Word History and Origins
Origin of double feature1
Idioms and Phrases
Also, double bill . A program consisting of two full-length films shown for the price of a single ticket. For example, It was a double feature and lasted five hours , or The women's conference had a double bill, first speakers from China and then visiting guests from the rest of the world . This expression is occasionally loosely used for other paired events (as in the second example). [c. 1930]Example Sentences
If you're one of those people who consider Die Hard and the first Lethal Weapon film a classic Christmas movie double feature, we've got good news for you.
I remember being taken to a double feature of that and Five Fingers of Death.
"Women and beer and traffic piled up on Gratiot and the same double feature at all the movies in town—" I got a look at him.
In the elevator Frey said, "Maybe we can still make that double feature."
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Idioms from 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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