SET PIECE


Meaning of SET PIECE in English

noun

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

The State of the Union address is one of the great set pieces of American public life.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Eleven minutes later Andrew McBride saw his set piece effort deflected past the post by a defender's stick.

The Laurel and Hardy set piece was the ordinary situation from which sprang a coiling spiral of disaster.

We might think, in retrospect, that it was a set piece of rather obvious connivance.

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