She Stoops to Conquer

American  

noun

1. a comedy (1773) by Oliver Goldsmith.

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Example Sentences

She didn’t think she could be an actor — “I’m six feet tall, and I’ve never been what you would call conventionally pretty” — until she attended a performance of “She Stoops to Conquer”: “The lights went down and this excitement just welled up and I thought, ‘If I don’t have a go at this, I will regret it.’”

From Los Angeles Times

The Irish writer Oliver Goldsmith, in “She Stoops to Conquer,” used the expression in 1773.

From Los Angeles Times

After staging Oliver Goldsmith’s “She Stoops to Conquer” last year, Seattle Shakes is headed back to the 1770s with Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s “The Rivals,” a comedy of manners full of hidden identities and verbal humor — the play’s most enduring contribution is Mrs. Malaprop, namesake of the malapropism.

From Seattle Times

Other members of this 18th-century dining society — nearly all self-made men — included the era’s most famous painter, Sir Joshua Reynolds, and its most celebrated actor, David Garrick, as well as the multitalented Oliver Goldsmith, best known today for his immortal comedy, “She Stoops to Conquer, ” and Richard Brinsley Sheridan, the dramatist who gave us that equally imperishable masterpiece, “The School for Scandal.”

From Washington Post

Finney made his first professional turn at 19 and appeared in several TV movies, including "She Stoops to Conquer" in 1956 and "The Claverdon Road Job" the following year.

From Fox News