| 单词 | to stop the show |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto stop the show (b) to stop the show (originally U.S.); to cause an interruption of a performance by provoking prolonged applause or laughter, or requests for encores. Cf. showstopper n., showstopping adj. 1 ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > performer > appear as performer [verb (intransitive)] > stop the show to stop the show1926 1926 Amer. Speech 1 437/1 When an act proves to be such a wow that it is forced to respond to encore after encore and the remainder of the acts on the program must wait until the audience will allow them to go on, it is said to ‘stop the show cold’. 1933 Fortune Aug. 92/1 Jim Europe had stopped the show with St. Louis Blues. 1957 R. Hart-Davis Let. 19 May in Lyttelton–Hart-Davis Lett. (1979) II. 103 The Gibbon quotation stopped the show long enough for me to consult my scrappy notes. 1966 ‘M. Renault’ Mask of Apollo vi. 107 This line, as I had feared it might, stopped the show. 1977 Times 13 June 15/4 The Merchant of Venice [was] performed by the Ibadan Boys' Grammar School... A British widower['s]..son..was cast as the Prince of Morocco. His opening line stopped the show: ‘Mislike me not for my complexion—.’ < as lemmas |
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