| 单词 | to play for laughs |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto play for laughs (also a laugh) 3. intransitive. to play for laughs (also a laugh): to try to make the audience laugh. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > acting > act [verb (intransitive)] > in specific manner to tear a (the) cat1600 to top one's part1672 to walk through ——1824 corpse1874 sketch1888 underplay1896 to play for laughs (also a laugh)1900 register1913 scene-steal1976 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > acting > act [verb (transitive)] > act in specific manner misact1609 tragedize1755 overact1760 overplay1767 to walk through ——1824 underact1847 to play down to ——1880 routine1897 underplay1897 milk1921 ham1933 hoke1935 to camp it up1957 to play for laughs (also a laugh)1963 undercharacterize1970 1900 N.Y. Times 8 Jan. 7/1 I see the tragic muse condemned to farce-comedy, Hamlets with specialties, Leah playing for a laugh, and Othello in ‘Uncle Tom's Cabin’. 1906 M. Beerbohm Around Theatres (1924) II. 256 Mr. Shaw was not merely ‘playing for a laugh’. He was trying to reproduce a thing that exists in life. 1963 Listener 14 Mar. 468/1 Joan Littlewood sensibly lets this plot look after itself. Her concern is to play for laughs. 2004 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) (Nexis) 18 Sept. m15 The movie lacks any sense of menace, and seems to be playing for laughs rather than thrills. < as lemmas |
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