Meaning of three-ring circus | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A large circus in which three separate performances, each within its own circular enclosure, are staged simultaneously before a single audience.
2. A disorderly, complicated, rapidly changing situation or set of events, which is a source of bewilderment, amazement, or amusement.
   broadly, idiomatic

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Examples

“Indoor track can be a three-ring circus, with so much going on in the space of a few evening hours that the fans hardly know where to look first.”

“British television viewers had seen how proceedings in US courtrooms can almost turn into a three-ring circus during the OJ Simpson trial.”

“The Italian Parliament has long been a three-ring circus.”

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