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ringside seat



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Idioms and Phrases

A place providing a close view of something, as in We lived right next door, so we had ringside seats for their quarrels . This term presumably came from boxing, where it denotes the seats just outside the boxing ring. [c. 1860]
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Example Sentences

His account of a major boxing contest is the next best thing to having a ringside seat.

As nearly as he could tell from the firing, it was two against one and he voted himself a ringside seat.

There was a great deal of wisecracking about Al Devis buying himself a ringside seat for the fire he'd started.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

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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