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play to the gallery
try to get the approval of the audience讨好(低级趣味的)观众;迎合大众的口味
In the past few years,television has been playing to the gallery.过去几年里,电视一直在迎合大众的口味。
The speaker played to the gallery by indulging in vulgar jokes.为了哗众取宠,那位演讲者大讲粗俗的笑话。
Playing to the gallery
If someone plays to the gallery, they say or do things that will make them popular, but which are not the right things to do.
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v. phr. To try to get the approval of the audience.
Whenever John recites in class he seems to be playing to the gallery. The lawyer for the defense was more interested in playing to the gallery than in winning the case. Compare: SHOW OFF.
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rogues' gallery.
rogues' gallery
rogues' gallery A police collection of pictures of criminals and suspects kept for identification purposes. For example,
The detective went through the entire rogues' gallery but couldn't find a match with the suspect. [Mid-1800s]
rogues' gallery
1. old-fashioned A accumulating of photographs of accepted abyss and suspects kept and acclimated by badge to analyze bodies taken into custody. The constable accustomed the adumbral appearance from the rogues' arcade aback at the station.2. By extension, any accumulating of unsavory, unpleasant, or abominable bodies or things. Often acclimated humorously or ironically. The blur is a absolute rogues' arcade of bad cinema—bad direction, bad acting, bad cinematography, bad everything. The new flat calls is article of a rogues' arcade of developers that acclimated to assignment for the better video bold publishers in the industry.Learn more: galleryrogues gallery
Originally, a assuming of a accumulation of abject individuals, such as capital criminals, but after acclimated humorously for any accumulation photograph. The term, additionally spelled rogue’s gallery, originated in the mid-1800s for a accumulating of criminals’ portraits. A aeon after it was acclimated added lightly, as in “Bob Dylan, Arthur Lee, Keith Richard, Bob Marley—the rogue’s arcade of insubordinate ascribe that forms the adamantine being at the centre of rock” (Kathy McKnight and John Tobler, Bob Marley: The Roots of Reggae, 1977).Learn more: gallery, roguerogues gallery
Collection of “head shot” photographs. A rogues arcade is a accumulation of “mug shot” photos of absolute and doubtable abyss maintained by badge departments for purposes of identification. The convenance began in the mid-19th aeon with the development of photography. By extension, any accumulating of head-and-shoulder photos, such as academy fraternity composites and bookish yearbooks, is jokingly referred to as rogues galleries.Learn more: gallery, rogue