Circus
A level oblong space surrounded on three sides by seats of wood, earth, or stone, rising in tiers one above another, and divided lengthwise through the middle by a barrier around which the track or course was laid out. It was used for chariot races, games, and public shows.
A circular inclosure for the exhibition of feats of horsemanship, acrobatic displays, etc. Also, the company of performers, with their equipage.
Circuit; space; inclosure.
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Circus Quotations
Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town.
George Carlin
A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.
H. L. Mencken
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
H. L. Mencken
So far as the colleges go, the sideshows are swallowing up the circus.
Woodrow Wilson
When I was a kid I joined the circus. I did that. It is true. But it's not like you think. There was a guy, he had his own circus. His name was Carol Jacobs and he owned it. It was a small thing.
Christopher Walken
Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy gets the Catholic Church. America gets Hollywood.
Erica Jong
Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.
E. B. White
Sometimes I think God wants there to be a circus so we can show there's another way to respond.
Tony Dungy
Cinema is an old whore, like circus and variety, who knows how to give many kinds of pleasure. Besides, you can't teach old fleas new dogs.
Federico Fellini
There's a hell of a lot of freedom in this rock and roll circus... it's where all the freaks go - it's the environment for me.
Brian Molko
Circus Translations
circus in Dutch is circus
circus in Finnish is sirkus
circus in French is cirque
circus in German is Zirkus
circus in Italian is circo
circus in Spanish is circo
circus in Swedish is cirkus
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