noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a media circus (= a disapproving phrase for all the people from the media who report events, and all the attention they give to these events )
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There is likely to be a media circus outside the courtroom.
three-ring circus
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I don’t know how you can work in that office – it’s like a three-ring circus.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
travelling
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The stables turned out to be remarkably solid structures for a travelling circus , made mostly of wood with canvas roofs.
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This year a travelling circus put up its tent and offered the public a horse-riding show.
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However, John Reynolds, the latest addition to this high-speed travelling circus , could be one of the surprise packets.
■ NOUN
act
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He was the ringmaster against the former circus act .
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I recently saw a circus act with contortionists folding themselves in amazing ways.
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He was more than prepared to trade blows with the former circus act Benichou.
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The shimmering cascade became a mere backdrop for a circus act .
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This is the basis for many complex circus acts performed by animals.
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This is the ultimate sustainable city in terms of jokes and governmental circus acts .
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Balloons float, a high-wire circus act teeters.
media
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Predictably, the international media circus , with its Olympian disdain for the parochial, has long since moved on.
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Both players have spent the week in the Valley, working a couple of the central rings in the media circus .
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He said it would turn the inquiry into a media circus .
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A media circus of expected proportions ensues.
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November's by-election was to a large extent a media circus .
performer
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They were more akin to circus performers than to more conventional professional sportsmen.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
travelling musician/circus/exhibition etc
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A Bradford Museums Service travelling exhibition.
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However, John Reynolds, the latest addition to this high-speed travelling circus, could be one of the surprise packets.
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The stables turned out to be remarkably solid structures for a travelling circus, made mostly of wood with canvas roofs.
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This year a travelling circus put up its tent and offered the public a horse-riding show.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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circus performers
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The media turned the trial into a circus .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A few of the students here quite like the idea of running away with a circus .
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Also patron of circus people, ferrymen, hotel employees, and innkeepers.
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He was the ringmaster against the former circus act.
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Now it became a circus of doubles: double nurses, double pram, double bassinet.
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The next circus I attended, still before the war started, was Bertram Mills at Darlington.
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Their walk advertised a circus whose posters had adorned walls and lampposts for the past week.