sideshow

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A minor attraction at a larger event such as a circus, fair or music festival.

   “1999 November 8, Frank Hayes, The Back Page: The main event, Computerworld, page 86, And IT people dismiss IT′s impact because, hey, we like being a sideshow to the real action.”

2. isim An incidental spectacle that diverts attention from a larger concern.

   “Far from learning from the failures of ‘economic rationalism,’ the Liberals want us to swallow more of the snake oil medicine while diverting our attention to the consumption tax sideshow.”

3. isim An incident in which drivers block traffic to perform stunts like donuts and burnouts for an extended period of time.

   “Gov. Gavin Newsom of California signed a law in October threatening a six-month suspension of a driver’s license for participating in a sideshow, even as a spectator. […] Since the emergence of sideshows in Oakland in the late 1980s, successive mayors have railed against them.”