Meaning of quick-change artist | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An entertainer whose performances involve rapid changes of costume.
2. Someone who rapidly changes their views, occupations, appearance, behavior, etc.; something that rapidly changes its form or function.
   broadly, figuratively

Examples

“Only then Nombe must be something of a quick-change artist since but a little while before she was beyond doubt⟳ personating the dead Mameena.”

“[T]he lead⟳ can change⟳ hands in this tournament faster than a quick-change artist's costume.”

“Here, too . . . are a kindly priest, a mysterious hermit, a good-hearted mother, a love-smitten young noblewoman, flashing swordplay, and taverns and palaces teeming with cooks and bakers and servants and idlers and criminals, all brought to vivid life by a well-chosen dozen-member cast⟳ of quick-change artists.”

“Mr. Churchill, with his well-known ability as a quick-change artist, had become⟳ a full-blooded protectionist”

“The worst part, the refugees say⟳, is maneuvering survival in a war whose combatants are often quick-change artists, looking like⟳ a neighbor by day and a killer by night.”

“Pharmaceutical manufacturers have⟳ already been hampered by HIV's talent as a quick-change artist.”

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