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dumb show
noun
- a part of a dramatic representation given in pantomime, common in early English drama.
- gestures without speech.
dumb show
noun
- a part of a play acted in pantomime, popular in early English drama
- meaningful gestures; mime
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of dumb show1
First recorded in 1555–65
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It might, however, be just the dumb show necessary to capture dumb times.
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But the core partisans understood that the campaign was not the coded dumb show the candidates were performing.
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A ceremony followed, in dumb show, in which it was easy to recognise the pantomime of a marriage.
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Billions, the labyrinthine drama about a shady hedge-fund investor and the shady district attorney on his tail, is by far and away the smartest dumb show on TV.
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"F—k you and your dumb show and your mystery illness. She disappears for two months, nobody knows why, and now she’s questioning me? ... I never fainted on my show either."
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