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peanut gallery

noun

Informal. the rearmost and cheapest section of seats in the balcony or the uppermost balcony of a theater.
Slang. a source of insignificant criticism:
No remarks from the peanut gallery!

An Americanism dating back to 1885–90

The media and peanut gallery missed that class and immediately cast them as “others.”

Simpson and Bowles are just playing to that peanut gallery, for which a Politico breakfast is the perfect audience.

On those occasions they had sat far up in the peanut gallery in the place reserved for people of colour.

This must have been the unanimous intention of the Perry populace, for the peanut gallery was a bower of fashion.

Up in the peanut gallery the gods began to indulge in catcalls and make personal inquiries.

A few minutes before he had been sitting up there in the "peanut gallery" of the Teatro Real.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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