three-ring circus
Example Sentences
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“They just watch the three-ring circus play out.”
From New York Times • Jul. 17, 2023
But by Tuesday the fever had broken — at least enough so that Rihanna's Super Bowl halftime show could take up residence, center stage, in the three-ring circus of disharmony that captures most people's attention.
From Salon • Feb. 16, 2023
The campaigns had no shortage of metaphors for the discombobulation, even before Day 3, when the three-ring circus became a two-ringer.
From Washington Post • Dec. 15, 2022
But a general decline in newspaper readership and the recession of the 1990s, followed by a three-ring circus of corporate leadership at The Times, would be the undoing of the paper’s Orange County edition.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2022
We had a three-ring circus goin’ there for a while.”
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
