peanut gallery
peanut gallery
noun
1.
Informal. the rearmost and cheapest section of seats in the balcony or the uppermost balcony of a theater.
2.
Slang. a source of insignificant criticism: No remarks from the peanut gallery!
Origin:
1885–90, Americanism
1885–90, Americanism
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| peanut gallery | |
noun | |
| 1. | (figurative) people whose criticisms are regarded as irrelevant or insignificant (resembling uneducated people who throw peanuts on the stage to express displeasure with a performance); "he ignored complaints from the peanut gallery" |
| 2. | rearmost or uppermost area in the balcony containing the least expensive seats [syn: second balcony] |
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Peanut gallery
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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