| 单词 | borscht circuit |
| 释义 | borscht circuit, n. U.S. colloq.
Brit. |ˈbɔːʃt ˌsəːkɪt|, U.S. |ˈbɔrʃ(t) ˌsərkət|
Forms: 19– borsch circuit, 19– borscht circuit, 19– borsht circuit [Also with capital initial(s).]
[‹ borscht, variant (after Yiddish borsht) of borsch n. + circuit n. Compare borscht belt n.]
The hotels of a resort area in the Catskill Mountains, New York State, as a source of (esp. summer) engagements for an entertainer or show.
The area itself later became known informally as the borscht belt: see borscht belt n.
1936Esquire Sept. 160/3 Seasonal influences are evidenced by the life-of-the-party racket (professional m.c.'s, or entertainers, who hypo the guests) on the ‘Borscht circuit’. 1940S. Lewis Bethel Merriday 165 I've been out on the Borscht circuit all summer. 1958H. Gardner Piece of Action 178 We get a little club work, borscht circuit. 1973B. Lohof in R. B. Browne Pop. Culture & Expanding Consciousness xii. 142 We nod in recollection at..Bacharach's odyssey in the borscht circuit. Working in a Catskills hotel with a quintet for forty dollars a week. 2001Record (Bergen County, New Jersey) (Nexis) 2 July f1 Davies..has a musical bent, having worked her way through college by singing Glen Miller hits on the borscht circuit. |
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