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ringside seat
Idioms and Phrases
A place providing a close view of something, as in We lived right next door, so we had ringside seats for their quarrels . This term presumably came from boxing, where it denotes the seats just outside the boxing ring. [c. 1860]Example Sentences
A ringside seat at the White House was something earned through decades of slogging through the political and journalistic mud.
More than £14.1m was recouped from ticket sales alone, with one VIP group package which included a ringside seat and photographs with the fighters costing as much as £1.6m.
Earl Slick’s "Guitar: Playing with David Bowie, John Lennon, and Rock-and-Roll’s Greatest Heroes" affords readers with a ringside seat for many of popular music’s most iconic moments.
If I was not boxing Joshua Buatsi in just a few weeks' time I would be trying everything I could to get a ringside seat in Quebec.
The man with a ringside seat for much of the last century of Washington history will turn 96 on Saturday.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
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