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ˈside-show
[side n.1 24 d.]
A ‘show’ which is subsidiary to a larger one; a minor attraction in an exhibition or entertainment; hence, a minor incident or issue, a subordinate matter or affair. Also fig., esp. in Mil. contexts: cf. show n.1 15 b.
1855Barnum Life xii. 316 In attending to what might be termed my ‘side shows’, or temporary enterprises, I have never neglected the American Museum. 1866C. H. Smith (title) Bill Arp, so called. A side show of the Southern side of the War. 1869‘Mark Twain’ Innoc. Abr. liii. 573 And so I close my chapter on the Church of the Holy Sepulchre... With all its clap-trap side-shows and unseemly impostures of every kind. 1884Dicken's Dict. Lond. 24/3 The price of admission is one shilling, besides ‘side shows’. 1884Times (weekly ed.) 17 Oct. 17/2 General Butler is conducting his Speech-making ‘side-show’ through New York. 1893Daily News 11 Jan. 2/3 A charity bazaar, and..the entertainments which are given at those places in what are called the side shows. 1900Westm. Gaz. 11 Sept. 2/1 The ‘side shows’, as the various sectional meetings are termed, were all well attended. 1915D. H. Lawrence Rainbow xiii. 381 But Ursula never told about Winifred Inger. That was a sort of secret side-show to her life. 1919Daily Express (Dublin) 18 Mar. 3/6 (heading) Side shows. Sir Chas. Monro's despatch. Important minor operations. 1931T. E. Lawrence Let. 13 Apr. (1938) 718 Your war-history has become one of my constant reference books, for the main war; and that its chapters on the side-shows are so crisply black-and-white as to make exciting stories of them. 1959Listener 12 Mar. 444/1 Not even sideshows in the Yemen or police operations by the army in a riotous colony will save them. 1977P. Moyes To kill Coconut xiii. 178 ‘What in hell is going on up in the forest.’.. ‘I told you, that's a side-show.’
attrib.1894Daily News 28 June 6/5 With so little side-show attraction. |