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sideshow
[ sahyd-shoh ]
noun
- a minor show or exhibition in connection with a principal one, as at a circus.
- any subordinate event or matter.
sideshow
/ ˈsaɪdˌʃəʊ /
noun
- a small show or entertainment offered in conjunction with a larger attraction, as at a circus or fair
- a subordinate event or incident
Word History and Origins
Origin of sideshow1
Example Sentences
Its resolution will determine whether the party has a chance of regaining power or whether it will be an increasingly irrelevant sideshow in a country dominated by the left.
There’s an overlay of international politics involved, with a sideshow storyline about the Justice Department allegedly approaching Gaetz’s father, a former Florida politician, about funding a mission to find an ex-FBI agent missing in Iran.
Right now, investors don’t want to see any noise or sideshows from Tesla and Musk.
Irving has been an unreliable co-star so far this season, alternating between fantastic scoring outbursts and confusing sideshows.
On the old web, designed to deliver hyper-targeted ads to unimaginably large audiences, creators have been a sideshow.
But drinking seems like a sideshow in these joints, not the main event.
The runoff has turned into a macabre political sideshow filled with grotesque attacks and ugly accusations.
The natural gas boom has become little more than a sideshow.
The trial of Morsi, now due to begin February 1, will be just a sideshow.
But the shutdown is something of a sideshow, provoked by impatient conservatives who wanted confrontation.
"Biting off live chickens' heads, in a sideshow wild-man act," Hideyoshi O'Leary supplied.
Hagen got a quick mental flash of a barker outside a circus sideshow: He walks like a man.
Unfortunately for posterity, Stieffel did not record his impressions of this little-known sideshow of the Civil War.
To make it take an hour he'd have to be ossified, wouldn't he, like the feller in the circus sideshow?
The sideshow got a dime of hers before the big show started and again after it ended.
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