grandstand play

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• grandstand play — 1. an ostentatious play, as in a sport, overemphasized deliberately to elicit applause from spectators. 2. any action or attempt designed to win approval or to make a strong impression: His going to work on Christmas was another of his grandstand …   Useful english dictionary

• grandstand play — n. something done exceedingly well to impress an audience or a group of spectators. □ The grandstand play caught the attention of the crowd just as they were leaving. □ He tried one final grandstand play, but the audience continued to give him… …   Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions

• grandstand play — 1. an ostentatious play, as in a sport, overemphasized deliberately to elicit applause from spectators. 2. any action or attempt designed to win approval or to make a strong impression: His going to work on Christmas was another of his grandstand …   Universalium

• grandstand — [grand′stand΄] n. the main seating structure for spectators at a sporting event, etc. vi. ☆ Informal to try to gain the applause or admiration of an audience by or as by making an unnecessarily showy play (grandstand play), as in baseball… …   English World dictionary

• grandstand —    American    to accentuate a difficulty in order to win praise    Where the spectators whom you wish to impress are located, but the expression is not confined to sport:     I relied on you to grandstand enough to let her get wise to you.… …   How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

• grandstand — I. noun Date: 1831 1. a usually roofed stand for spectators at a racecourse or stadium 2. audience II. adjective Date: 1888 done for show or to impress onlookers < a grandstand play > III. intransitive verb …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• grandstand — vb American to put on a bravura display, show off to an audience. The expression comes from the world of sport and was origi nally an Americanism. It is often used as an adjective as in a grandstand play …   Contemporary slang

• grandstand — (n.) main seating for spectators at an outdoor event, 1834, from GRAND (Cf. grand) (adj.)+ STAND (Cf. stand). The verb meaning to show off is student slang from 1895, from grandstand player, attested in baseball slang from 1888. It s little… …   Etymology dictionary

• grandstand — [v] show off be ostentatious, be vain, flaunt it*, hot dog*, parade, play to the crowd, prance, put on airs*, showboat*, strut, swagger; concept 261 …   New thesaurus

• grandstand — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. bleachers. See vision, arena. v. i. show off, hot dog (inf.). See boasting. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. amphitheater, stadium, stands, stand, stalls, field house, coliseum, field, benches, boxes,… …   English dictionary for students

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