second banana
第二根香蕉,第二个香蕉,第二只香蕉,第二香蕉
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Informal.
- : a comic who supports the leading comedian, often as a straight man, especially in burlesque or vaudeville.
- : any person who plays a secondary role or serves in a subsidiary capacity.
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Examples
Gunshots rang out in Paris this morning on a second day of deadly violence that has stunned the French capital.
And as he adjusted to this change in circumstances, he screamed at himself a second time: Wait!
A second document was titled: “Gambia Reborn: A Charter for Transition from Dictatorship to Democracy and Development.”
These are young fathers, rural farmers, usually growing banana or coffee or subsistence crops.
If 29 vote for someone else, the race for speaker goes to a second ballot for the first time in almost 100 years.
In treble, second and fourth, the first change is a dodge behind; and the second time the treble leads, there's a double Bob.
On his head was the second-hand hat of some parvenu's coachman, gold lace, cockade and all.
The beauty, the mystery,—this fierce sunshine or something—stir——' She hesitated for a fraction of a second.
Roman Pane who accompanied Columbus on his second voyage alludes to another method of using the herb.
He set down as the second the golden rule, “Whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, do ye even so to them.”