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Upstage   /əpstˈeɪdʒ/   Listen
Upstage

verb
1.
Treat snobbishly, put in one's place.
2.
Move upstage, forcing the other actors to turn away from the audience.
3.
Steal the show, draw attention to oneself away from someone else.
adjective
1.
Of the back half of a stage.  Antonym: downstage.
2.
Remote in manner.  Synonyms: aloof, distant.  "A distant smile" , "He was upstage with strangers"
adverb
1.
At or toward the rear of the stage.  Antonym: downstage.
noun
1.
The rear part of the stage.



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"Upstage" Quotes from Famous Books



... out between the first and second acts to sing a gingham-and-sunbonnet song would whisk off to reappear immediately in knee-length pink satin and curls. When the heroine left home in a shawl and a sudden snowstorm that followed her upstage and stopped when she went off, Josie was interested, but undeceived. She knew that the surprised-looking white horse used in the Civil War comedy-drama entitled "His Southern Sweetheart" came from Joe Brink's livery stable in exchange for four passes, and that the ...
— Cheerful--By Request • Edna Ferber
... with whom you will have to deal are home folks, like yourself, from Oskaloosa and Richmond and Santa Barbara and Quincy. Few are native-born New Yorkers, and scarcely any of them go around with their noses in the air in an "upstage Eastern manner." Most of them are graduates of the newspaper school, and remnants of newspaper cynicism occasionally appear in their outspoken philosophy. But be not deceived by this, for even in the newspaper ...
— If You Don't Write Fiction • Charles Phelps Cushing
... in woods, furnished with the old Sturtevant mahogany, came upon Bertram Chester like a stage setting as he entered with Mrs. Tiffany. Upstage, burned a driftwood fire in a low hearth of rough bricks; Judge Tiffany sat there, in a spindle-backed chair, reading. Across a space broken only by a painting, a Japanese print or so, and more spindle-backed ...
— The Readjustment • Will Irwin


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