Sideshow
noun
A small show or event seen as less important and organized in addition to a larger one.
The music concert also had a sideshow of local craft vendors.
Often appears as...
- carnival sideshow
- circus sideshow
noun
Something considered less important than another related activity.
The debate became a sideshow to the main election campaign.
Often appears as...
- political sideshow
- media sideshow
noun
A small show or event seen as less important and organized in addition to a larger one.
The music concert also had a sideshow of local craft vendors.
Often appears as...
- carnival sideshow
- circus sideshow
noun
Something considered less important than another related activity.
The debate became a sideshow to the main election campaign.
Often appears as...
- political sideshow
- media sideshow
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Lesser Spotlight
A sideshow doesn't have the main focus, it's something extra but not the key attraction.
I enjoyed the magician, but the jugglers were just a sideshow.
Pro Tip 2/3Additional Fun
Sideshows add variety and additional entertainment to the main event.
The local bands playing at the festival were a delightful sideshow to the main acts.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Origins
Historically, sideshows are associated with carnivals and circuses, featuring unique acts.
We saw a fire-eater in the carnival sideshow.
Pro Tip 1/3Lesser Spotlight
A sideshow doesn't have the main focus, it's something extra but not the key attraction.
I enjoyed the magician, but the jugglers were just a sideshow.
Pro Tip 2/3Additional Fun
Sideshows add variety and additional entertainment to the main event.
The local bands playing at the festival were a delightful sideshow to the main acts.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Origins
Historically, sideshows are associated with carnivals and circuses, featuring unique acts.
We saw a fire-eater in the carnival sideshow.
Pro Tip 1/3Lesser Spotlight
A sideshow doesn't have the main focus, it's something extra but not the key attraction.
I enjoyed the magician, but the jugglers were just a sideshow.
Pro Tip 2/3Additional Fun
Sideshows add variety and additional entertainment to the main event.
The local bands playing at the festival were a delightful sideshow to the main acts.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Origins
Historically, sideshows are associated with carnivals and circuses, featuring unique acts.
We saw a fire-eater in the carnival sideshow.
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I do think we have to get political and start to reclaim this process from the medicalized model in which it's going. Now, listen, that sounds like a pitch for euthanasia. I want to make it absolutely crystal clear to you all, I hate euthanasia. I think it's a sideshow. I don't think euthanasia matters.
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Let's talk about dying -...
these words of birth I like peace love natural death as an option I do think we have to get political and start to reclaim this process from the medicalised model in which it's going now listen that sounds like a pitch for euthanasia I want to make it absolutely crystal clear to you all I hate euthanasia I think it's a sideshow I
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Peter Saul: Let's talk...
I do think we have to get political and start to reclaim this process from the medicalized model in which it's going. Now, listen, that sounds like a pitch for euthanasia. I want to make it absolutely crystal clear to you all, I hate euthanasia. I think it's a sideshow. I don't think euthanasia matters.
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Meet the Lizard Man PIPE...
has gone to great lengths to radically transform his body he's the lizard man and outcasts by design without further ado I would like to introduce the little green man the freak of nature the lizard man these days Eric works as a sideshow
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Christina Hendricks
American Actress
When I first started dating my husband, I had this weird fascination with the circus and clowns and old carnival things and sideshow freaks and all that. About a month after we started dating, he bought me this amazing black-and-white photo book on the circus in the 1930s, and I started sobbing.
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Martin Rees
British Scientist
The scientific issues that engage people most are the truly fundamental ones: is the universe infinite? Is life just a sideshow in the cosmos? What happened before the Big Bang? Everyone is flummoxed by such questions, so there is, in a sense, no gulf between experts and the rest.
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Michelle Malkin
American Writer
Championing liberty begins at the local level. There is nothing more fundamental than the principle that a man's home is his castle. Donald Trump's career-long willingness to trample this right tells you everything you need to know about his bogus tea party sideshow.
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Michael Caputo
American Public Servant
After directing broadcast media coverage for seven House committees, I know the signs of a sideshow - and delivering demand letters to reporters before they go to the person being asked to produce documents is one of the chief signs.
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Stormy Daniels
American Celebrity
Simply because I did not fit in their mold of what an independent working woman should be, the media and political elite have sought to relegate my sense of civic responsibility to mere sideshow antics.
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Jonathan Lethem
American Writer
I've never related to the work geek at all-it sounds much more horrible than nerd. Like a freak biting a chicken's head off in a sideshow.
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Billy Barty
American Actor
The general public thinks all little people are in circuses or sideshows. We have doctors, nurses, just about every field covered.
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John Landgraf
American Businessman
As incredible as television has become, it often feels like a sideshow in what has become a daily three-ring media circus.
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Too Short
The number-one thing about the hyphy isn't the sideshow or doing donuts. It's the music.
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Woodrow Wilson
American President
So far as the colleges go, the sideshows are swallowing up the circus.
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Christina Hendricks
American Actress
When I first started dating my husband, I had this weird fascination with the circus and clowns and old carnival things and sideshow freaks and all that. About a month after we started dating, he bought me this amazing black-and-white photo book on the circus in the 1930s, and I started sobbing.
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Martin Rees
British Scientist
The scientific issues that engage people most are the truly fundamental ones: is the universe infinite? Is life just a sideshow in the cosmos? What happened before the Big Bang? Everyone is flummoxed by such questions, so there is, in a sense, no gulf between experts and the rest.
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Michelle Malkin
American Writer
Championing liberty begins at the local level. There is nothing more fundamental than the principle that a man's home is his castle. Donald Trump's career-long willingness to trample this right tells you everything you need to know about his bogus tea party sideshow.
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Michael Caputo
American Public Servant
After directing broadcast media coverage for seven House committees, I know the signs of a sideshow - and delivering demand letters to reporters before they go to the person being asked to produce documents is one of the chief signs.
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Stormy Daniels
American Celebrity
Simply because I did not fit in their mold of what an independent working woman should be, the media and political elite have sought to relegate my sense of civic responsibility to mere sideshow antics.
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Jonathan Lethem
American Writer
I've never related to the work geek at all-it sounds much more horrible than nerd. Like a freak biting a chicken's head off in a sideshow.
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Billy Barty
American Actor
The general public thinks all little people are in circuses or sideshows. We have doctors, nurses, just about every field covered.
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John Landgraf
American Businessman
As incredible as television has become, it often feels like a sideshow in what has become a daily three-ring media circus.
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Too Short
The number-one thing about the hyphy isn't the sideshow or doing donuts. It's the music.
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Woodrow Wilson
American President
So far as the colleges go, the sideshows are swallowing up the circus.
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