stage business
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of stage business
First recorded in 1815–25
Example Sentences
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Schumacher “helped build our stage business from the ground up,” Bergman said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2025
Other actors came up with bits of stage business in another scene, detailing the moments before the evening SNN newscast went live.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 11, 2022
But what does that bit of symbolically freighted stage business feel like if you’re Elton John?
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2019
The wit of Bianca’s “Always True to You in My Fashion” disappears amid too much stage business.
From New York Times ● Mar. 15, 2019
Turning to the lawyer, he said coldly: "So, in the matter of this stage business, you can take no steps to restrain her?"
From The Third Degree A Narrative of Metropolitan Life by Klein, Charles
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