| 单词 | custard pie comedy |
| 释义 | > as lemmascustard pie comedy attributive, with the sense ‘containing or characterized by broad physical humour typified by the throwing of custard pies’, esp. in custard pie comedy. ΚΠ 1916 Smart Set Oct. 134/2 Sennett..has graduated himself as the foremost bachelor of custard-pie arts. 1940 R. Graves & A. Hodge Long Week-end ix. 133 Charlie Chaplin..won enormous popularity..with his custard-pie comedies. 1941 P. Sturges Sullivan's Trav. a4 We'd still be making Keystone chases, bathing beauties, custard pie operas. 1969 L. S. Hollingworth in Readings in Child Psychol. 154 These young children of extremely high intellectual acumen..will fail to patronize custard-pie movies. 2013 Wells Jrnl. (Nexis) 4 July 10 From the clowns and their custard pie humour to the daring tricks of the trapeze artist, the thrills and spills of the travelling circus never fail to entertain. < as lemmas |
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