tread the boards
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Over-the-top, camp and butch, with heavy makeup, big hair and large gestures, the season's most flamboyant, matron-like men put on their drawers to tread the boards and make everything go pear-shaped.
From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2025
At 83, he is eager to tread the boards once again — and to continue working as steadily as he has for the last six decades.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 22, 2024
She handed me her new album, autographed 'To Richard, thou shalt tread the boards.
From New York Times ● Aug. 21, 2012
Miller, 29, is the latest British film star to tread the boards in the West End.
From Reuters ● Jan. 21, 2011
Under Almayer’s heavy tread the boards of the verandah creaked loudly.
From Almayer's Folly: a story of an Eastern river by Conrad, Joseph
