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Meanings of ballyhoo in English
Synonyms
Examples for "plug"
Examples for "plug"
1
Increased cash contributions to plug its pension fund is yet another problem.
2
The new rooms will help plug Manila's chronic shortage of quality accommodation.
3
For the government, the money raised will help plug the fiscal deficit.
4
ESPN, nervous about political editorializing in an election year, pulled the plug.
5
But is the rest of Europe really prepared to pull the plug?
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And companies need a strong business model to go with the hype.
2
The removal process lives up to the hype, too: Just add water.
3
Of course, even after all the hype, it may yet be Archer.
4
Another said: Had one earlier on the back of all the hype.
5
The immediate problem with shale gas is the hype that surrounds it.
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But this is still a fairly disappointing response to last year's hoopla.
2
Because out here so many fly-by-night things happen-andthere's all this hoopla.
3
Away from the hoopla of the runway, either is a no-brainer choice.
4
From a cop's perspective, the upside of all the Homeland Security hoopla.
5
So with all the hoopla about Tottenham, it's just the one player.
Usage of ballyhoo in English
1
No steam carousel shrieked, no ballyhoo blared, no steam pianos shrieked, no barker barked.
2
The ballyhoo in the press was taken by various enforcement agencies as a personal affront.
3
Motion pictures ran day and night, their ballyhoo added to the outcries of the other barkers.
4
I grabbed him by the coat sleeve, trying to make my voice carry above the ballyhoo.
5
That is far from being the whole of Tom's "ballyhoo."
6
As they come up and listen to the "ballyhoo" man-
7
We cannot ballyhoo ourselves back to prosperity.
8
Why, once he took a job as a ballyhoo at a show on the Bowery in Coney Island.
9
Ed Allen who is at the head of it, thinks up the ideas for the ballyhoo that attracts attention.
10
If she would do the ballyhoo for a Kid Show, she would pack 'em in to bust down the sidewalls.
11
At the time of Marilyn's death six years later, Sir Laurence commented: She was the complete victim of ballyhoo and sensation.
12
Be off wid ye thin, darlints, and steer clear of the likes of this ballyhoo of blazes as long as ye live.
13
He was uncomfortable around throngs of people, and the cacophony of chatter, ballyhoo, and music always put a crease between his eyebrows.
14
The spectacular signs and free lure show runways were closed down, for ballyhoo of a different character had taken their place for the daytime.
15
At eighteen he was a side show ballyhoo; later, the manager of the side show, and, soon after, the proprietor of a second-class vaudeville house.
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Ten years ago, you may remember X.500 was a much-ballyhooed directory protocol.
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Translations for ballyhoo
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