| 单词 | flea circus |
| 释义 | > as lemmasflea circus flea circus n. originally U.S. a show of performing fleas. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > animal performance > [noun] hippodrama1811 flea circus1928 1928 Amer. Mag. May 67/1 Professor Heckler's Trained Fleas... Tiny golden carts rattled merrily across the strip of white blotting paper. The first act in the flea circus was under way. 1932 Screenland Apr. 89/1 Shooting galleries, the flea circus, and ending the spree by having their pictures made. 1936 W. H. Auden & C. Isherwood Ascent of F6 (1937) ii. iii When I was at school, I tried to keep a flea circus. 1950 Oxf. Junior Encycl. IX. 369/1 ‘Flea Circuses’, which are still to be seen at fairs—the main attraction usually being a chariot race between fleas attached by wire to tiny aluminium chariots. 1953 J. Cary Except the Lord xviii. 80 The cheapjack men,..the freaks and the flea circus. < as lemmas |
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