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grandstand play
noun
an ostentatious play, as in a sport, overemphasized deliberately to elicit applause from spectators.
any action or attempt designed to win approval or to make a strong impression.
His going to work on Christmas was another of his grandstand plays.
51³Ō¹Ļ History and Origins
Origin of grandstand play1
Example Sentences
Thinking rollback isnāt crazy, but it requires a sustained effort, not a grandstand play.
āA grandstand play, put on by people who donāt like Trump or the GOP, regardless, that has nothing to do with climate change, alternative fuels or any other science. These folks ought to put their pocket protectors back in their short-sleeved dress shirts and get back into the labs where they belong.ā
Declining Robinsonās insistence that he intervene in the case, Nixon told him that Kennedy had opportunistically made āwhat our good friend Joe Louis called a āgrandstand play.'ā
This isnāt a grandstand play on my part; Iāve discoveredāand you can see it in other entertainersāwhen they donāt reach out to the audience, nothing happens.
As Sam was walking away Joe resolved on a bold stroke, rather a grandstand play as he confessed to himself afterward, but he could not forego it.
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