three-ring circus
noun
ˈthrē-ˈriŋ- 
1
: a circus with simultaneous performances in three rings
2
: something wild, confusing, engrossing, or entertaining
Synonyms
- babel
- bedlam
- circus
- madhouse
- scrum [British]
See all Synonyms & Antonyms 
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web Feld shut down the three-ring circus in 2017 after a 146-year run. 
Jay Handelman, USA TODAY, 18 May 2022 But a general decline in newspaper readership and the recession of the 1990s, followed by a three-ring circus of corporate leadership at The Times, would be the undoing of the paper’s Orange County edition. Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2022 Stafford, after a career of haymakers with the dreadful Lions, was asked in one season to put the Rams in the NFL’s version of a three-ring circus, aka Super Bowl 56. Jay Paris, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022 The only three-ring circus in North America rolls into Columbia County on June 29. Joe Hotchkiss, ajc, 27 June 2021 Sunday presented something of a three-ring circus setting at Augusta. Doug Ferguson, Star Tribune, 4 Apr. 2021 Mahomes and his three-ring circus are a bad matchup for a lot of defenses, even good ones. Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 1 Oct. 2020 Motherhood can be hard, especially now when moms are homeschooling their kids, acting as short-order cooks, and playing ring master of a seriously crazy three-ring circus—all while trying to maintain their sanity. Katie Bowlby, Country Living, 7 May 2020 Co-owner Bobby Lee described it as a three-ring circus that happens to sell steaks. Chris Quintana, USA TODAY, 14 Apr. 2020 See More
Jay Handelman, USA TODAY, 18 May 2022 But a general decline in newspaper readership and the recession of the 1990s, followed by a three-ring circus of corporate leadership at The Times, would be the undoing of the paper’s Orange County edition. Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2022 Stafford, after a career of haymakers with the dreadful Lions, was asked in one season to put the Rams in the NFL’s version of a three-ring circus, aka Super Bowl 56. Jay Paris, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022 The only three-ring circus in North America rolls into Columbia County on June 29. Joe Hotchkiss, ajc, 27 June 2021 Sunday presented something of a three-ring circus setting at Augusta. Doug Ferguson, Star Tribune, 4 Apr. 2021 Mahomes and his three-ring circus are a bad matchup for a lot of defenses, even good ones. Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 1 Oct. 2020 Motherhood can be hard, especially now when moms are homeschooling their kids, acting as short-order cooks, and playing ring master of a seriously crazy three-ring circus—all while trying to maintain their sanity. Katie Bowlby, Country Living, 7 May 2020 Co-owner Bobby Lee described it as a three-ring circus that happens to sell steaks. Chris Quintana, USA TODAY, 14 Apr. 2020 See More Word History
First Known Use
1902, in the meaning defined at sense 1
three-ring circus
noun
as in circus
a place of uproar or confusion the house has been a three-ring circus ever since the kids got back from summer camp Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- circus
- madhouse
- bedlam
- scrum
- pandemonium
- bustle
- commotion
- mess
- disorder
- racket
- babel
- noise
- turmoil
- chaos
- din
- ruckus
- tumult
- hell
- clamor
- disarray
- clatter
- muss
- confusion
- hubbub
- brouhaha
- shambles
- havoc
- disarrangement
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- heaven
- organization
- paradise
- utopia
- order
- peace
- arcadia
- silence
- calm
- quiet
- lull
- orderliness
- respite
- stillness
- hush
- sound-conditioning
- sound-dead
- sound-effects man
- sound-intensity level
- sound-level meter
- sound-on-film
- sound-powered telephone
- sound-type
- sound/ring/toll the death knell
- sound/signal the retreat
- soundable
- soundabler
- soundablest
- soundalike
- soundalikes
- soundbar
- soundbars
- soundbites
- soundboard
- soundboards
- soundboxes
- soundcards
- soundchecks
- sounded
- sounded (out)