puppet show
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1.8
- noun
- /ˈpʌpɪt ʃoʊ/
:
espectáculo de marionetas
- "Today is a special puppet show for Martin Luther King's birthday."
It's, you know, I'm seeing people at a puppet show and then it turns to horror.
- It's, you know, I'm seeing people at a puppet show and then it turns to horror.
- They get to pull the strings of the puppet show and that means that they just push themselves into your life and do what they want.
Examples
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This Sunday, St. Luke's Anglican Church presents "Esther's Story," a puppet show for all ages.
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Destiny and Agatha had been artistic partners, traveling the country from city to city, performing puppet shows on the street.
Fiction book (2002) -
I feel like my days of puppet shows are behind me.
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I do like a good puppet show.
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Perhaps we'll see a puppet show.
Fiction book (1999) -
Why not consider hosting puppet shows or story hours for kids?
Blog text (12) -
At the puppet show, Gabriella Elephant sat up in her seat as tall as she could.
Fiction book (1999) -
One early-childhood teacher candidate narrates a puppet show using the book, The Three Bears, as a service-learning experience with pre-K children and families.
Academic text (2013) -
This Sunday, St. Luke's Anglican Church presents "Esther's Story," a puppet show for all ages.
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Winter Solstice Festival at Oakwood Village Library - Come for a puppet show followed by a craft activity.
Synonyms
539
2.7
A live show of a play, concert, or dance for an audience
1
9.9
A lively puppet show with clever, funny jokes
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3.7
A staged play that actors perform live for an audience
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3.4
A show using puppets to tell a story
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9.9
A traditional Japanese puppet theatre with large puppets operated by visible puppeteers and a live narrator
How Elaborate
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derived from combining puppet (small figure manipulated by hand or strings) with show (a staged event for an audience); it straightforwardly denotes a performance using puppets. This noun+noun composition is a common, cross-linguistic pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Puppet show comes from simple scenes where a hidden person moved a small figure, the puppet, to act and speak for the crowd, creating a little play or the show. Seeing a small figure move like a person is a strong image, so the phrase came to mean 'a performance in which puppets are used to tell a story'.