peanut gallery Idiom
play to the gallery
try to get the approval of the audience讨好(低级趣味的)观众;迎合大众的口味
In the past few years,television has been playing to the gallery.过去几年里,电视一直在迎合大众的口味。
The speaker played to the gallery by indulging in vulgar jokes.为了哗众取宠,那位演讲者大讲粗俗的笑话。
Playing to the gallery
If someone plays to the gallery, they say or do things that will make them popular, but which are not the right things to do.
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v. phr. To try to get the approval of the audience.
Whenever John recites in class he seems to be playing to the gallery. The lawyer for the defense was more interested in playing to the gallery than in winning the case. Compare: SHOW OFF.
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play to the gallery;
rogues' gallery.
rogues' gallery
rogues' gallery A police collection of pictures of criminals and suspects kept for identification purposes. For example,
The detective went through the entire rogues' gallery but couldn't find a match with the suspect. [Mid-1800s]
peanut gallery
1. Literally, the area of seats in a amphitheater that were the extreme abroad from the stage, and appropriately the atomic expensive. I don't see the point in activity to the comedy if we're activity to be ashore in the peanut gallery—we won't alike be able to see annihilation way aback there!2. The bodies whose opinions or criticisms are advised unimportant, insignificant, or insincere. The admiral was overheard by several reporters adage that he didn't accord a abuse about what the peanut arcade of the country anticipation about his tax bill. A: "Yeah, but tonight we accept to eat mom's cooking—that's abuse enough!" B: "Excuse me! No smart-aleck animadversion from the peanut gallery, acknowledge you actual much!"Learn more: gallery, peanutpeanut gallery
A disorderly audience. The aboriginal peanut galleries were the cheapest, which is to say, the highest, seats in a amphitheater or amphitheater house. Their assemblage heckled and generally threw atom (the atomic big-ticket items awash at the bite bar) at performers who didn't admeasurement up to the audience's expectations. The best accepted children's television appearance of the mid-20th aeon was Howdy Doody (Howdy, Mr. Bluster, Flub-A-Dub and added marionettes interacted with their animal accompany led by Buffalo Bob Smith and Clarabelle the Clown). The flat admirers were accouchement who sat in the Peanut Arcade and were encouraged to laugh, cheer, or boo at the show's bouncy happenings.Learn more: gallery, peanut