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one-man show
Idioms and Phrases
Also, one-man band . A person who does or manages just about everything, as in This department is a one-man show—the chairman runs it all , or John conducts the interviews, writes the articles, solicits ads, deals with the printer—he's a one-man band . This idiom alludes to the actor or artist responsible for the entire performance or exhibit, or the musician who plays every instrument in the group. [First half of 1900s]Example Sentences
After that, he devoted himself over the course of a decade to “Citizen Twain,†a touring one-man show that he wrote, directed and starred in as a resurrected Mark Twain.
On stage, Fisher-Becker appeared in productions of “The Busybody,†“The Emperor of the Moon,†“A Midsummer Night’s Dream,†“Macbeth†and a one-man show of “Hamlet: Tragedy of a Fat Man.â€
I got labeled as “too one-man show†at one club, which was frustrating.
Asa Butterfield may be best known for playing nerdy teenager Otis in Sex Education, but now he is swapping the classroom for the stage as he makes his theatre debut in one-man show Second Best.
His cousin Enzo shares memories of the man he describes as a "one-man show" and explains how Mino's legacy lives on.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
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