upstage
上台,上场,上台阶,上演
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Definitions
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- : on or toward the back of the stage.
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- : of, relating to, or located at the back of the stage.
- : haughtily aloof; supercilious.
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up·staged, up·stag·ing.
- : to overshadow by moving upstage and forcing the performer to turn away from the audience.
- : to outdo professionally, socially, etc.
- : to behave snobbishly toward.
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- : the rear half of the stage.
- : any stage position to the rear of another.
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
The rover will continue its journey around Jezero and is arguably being upstaged by its aerial buddy Ingenuity—a small helicopter that has now made 12 flights on Mars.
That visit came before his brother did the same, leading a Jordanian insider to tell Reuters Hamzah had upstaged the king.
So, Streep rewrote much of her dialogue, which led to tension with her co-star, Hoffman, who felt she was trying to upstage him.
Daily Pic (Venice Biennale Edition): Yuri Ancarani shows that medical magic can upstage the aesthetic kind.
It takes great talent to upstage a man accepting his party's presidential nomination.
In terms of attire, one did not upstage the other by looking more sophisticated or fashionable—or elitist, God forbid.
Upstage, burned a driftwood fire in a low hearth of rough bricks; Judge Tiffany sat there, in a spindle-backed chair, reading.
Few are native-born New Yorkers, and scarcely any of them go around with their noses in the air in an "upstage Eastern manner."
Single rose-coloured corduroy curtain for archway up R. hung on upstage side of arch.
One perceived, dimly, a high sombre draping, very far upstage.
A similar door, opening into the bedroom of the shack, upstage right.