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Definition: Stage Fright |
Stage FrightNoun1. Fear that affects a person about to face an audience. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Fine Arts | Nervousness experienced by an actor when appearing before an audience, esp. on his first appearance. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Alfred Hitchcock's cameo appearance is as a man looking at Jane Wyman's character on the street. The film featured a song by Cole Porter entitled "The Laziest Gal In Town". Christian Dior did the costumes. The film was released in 1950.
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| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Stage Fright (1950) | |
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Books | |
Theater & Movies |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | He felt no stage fright but the thought of the part he had to play humiliated him. |
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Expressions using "stage fright": have a stage fright ♦ suffer from stage fright. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
stage fright | 57 |
overcoming stage fright | 7 |
overcome stage fright | 4 |
conquer stage fright | 4 |
cure stage fright | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "stage fright"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | emocion (emotion, feeling, pulse, thrill). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | تهيب الجمهور, ذعر جماعي, ذعر الجمهور, رهبة المسرح. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | сценична треска. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | tréma. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | ramppikuume. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | trac (stage fear). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | τρακ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | אימתא "צבורא, אימת "ציבור. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | lámpaláz (flap). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 舞台 け . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ぶたいまけ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | aggle ardan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | agestay ightfray trac (thracian). (various references) страх перед публикой. (various references) trema (jitters). (various references) miedo al público. (various references) rampfeber (stage-fright). (various references) sahneye çıkma korkusu, sahne heyecanı. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-f-g-g-h-i-r-s-t-t" | |
-2 letters: gearshift. | |
-3 letters: farthest, fighters, freights, frigates, gastight, refights, rightest, shaggier, staggier, straight, triggest. | |
-4 letters: aigrets, artiest, artiste, atheist, athirst, attires, fairest, fathers, fattier, fatties, fattish, fighter, fitters, freight, frigate, frights, gagster, gaiters, garfish, gargets, gathers, hafters, hastier, hatters, hegaris, hegiras, hitters, iratest, raggies, ratfish, ratites, rattish, refight, resight, saggier, seagirt, shatter, shifter, sighter. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Modern 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Slideshow | 5. Quotations: Fiction 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Anagrams 10. Bibliography |
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