chautauqua
/tʃɔːˈtɔːkwə
/ /ʃɔːˈtɔːkwə/noun North American
An institution that provided popular adult education courses and entertainment in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.It was a humorous chautauqua, and I did everything in Greek, including answering questions, but I also mimed the answers....
- Through correspondence courses, university extension, journals like The Chautauquan, and especially reading circles, Chautauqua's influence spread widely.
- The idea was born in the brain of Texas firebrand Jim Hightower and draws its inspiration from the old style Chautauqua - part country fair, part revival festival and pure grass roots democracy.
Origin
Late 19th century: named after Chautauqua, a county in New York State, where such an institution was first set up.
- the Big Three (or Four etc.)
- the bird has flown
- the birds and the bees
- the biter bitten (or bit)
- the Blessed Sacrament
- the Blitz
- the bloom is off the rose
- the Boat Race
- the body beautiful
- the Book of Psalms
- the Books of the Maccabees
- the boot (or shoe) is on the other foot
- the Border
- the Borders
- the bottom falls (or drops) out
- the Bourse
- the boy (or girl) next door
- the brass ring
- the bread of life
- the breath of life
- the buck stops here (or with someone)
- the Burse
- theca
- theca folliculi
- the Cairngorms