nosebleed seat

nosebleed seat

A seat very high up in a stadium or theater, as for a sporting event, musical performance, play, etc., which typically costs less money but has a restricted view. "Nosebleed" refers jocularly to the effects of extremely high altitudes on the body, which can often cause nasal hemorrhaging, among other symptoms. I wish you wouldn't be so stingy when you're buying tickets. I'm sick of watching football games in the nosebleed seats! I waited too long to get tickets to the concert, so all that was left was a nosebleed seat way in the back.
See also: nosebleed, seat
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

nosebleed seats

n. seats high up in an arena, theater, or opera house. We could only afford the nosebleed seats for the opera.
See also: nosebleed, seat
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • at the buzzer
  • (Someone or something) called, they want their (something) back!
  • tomorrow
  • a swan song
  • bushel
  • one rotten apple spoils the (whole) barrel
  • a bad apple spoils the (whole) barrel
  • a rotten apple spoils the (whole) barrel
  • a rotten apple spoils the (whole) bunch
  • a rotten apple spoils the (whole) bushel
References in periodicals archive
Paying $729 for a nosebleed seat at the Staples Center, Leo led a dozen childhood friends and siblings to LA Live!
From a nosebleed seat at the Met, the 76-year-old former office assistant for Mexico's Treasury Department saw Puccini's "Tosca," which tells the story of a love triangle involving an opera singer, an artist and a police chief, as well as torture, murder and suicide.
Typical nosebleed seat on secondary market: $3,500-$4,500
As an undergraduate, I was taught from the perspective of a spectator in the nosebleed seats watching the economic action unfold below.
That same sensation is actually similar to the adrenaline rush of watching sports IRL--so snag a pair of nosebleed seats (and some hot dogs and Cracker Jack, natch) on a fireworks night.
Grab a drink at The Ginn Mill instead; it's as good as nosebleed seats.
In a (https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/5893751/billy-joel-exclusive-backstage-cover-story-interview-qa-madison-square-garden/) 2014 Billboard interview , Joel revealed he reserves the first two rows of his shows for fans with nosebleed seats. Sources close to the singer told Gossip Cop Joel has "never banned Matt from attending any of his concerts."
"I'd think: If you're going to a ballgame and you're going to sit in the nosebleed seats and climb all those steps, I don't want to do that," she says.
Before he was on set with Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman or developing landmark TV shows like The Odd Couple and Happy Days, Garry Marshall was just a kid sitting in the nosebleed seats falling in love with the theatre.
It's not like some drunk up in the nosebleed seats can simply request a cheerleader like he's ordering a beer.
So what's up with the $720 front-row seats, $400 first-tier seats and $100 nosebleed seats for the July 31 Carlos Santana/Rod Stewart gig at Matthew Knight Arena?
For the second encore, Pearl Jam played a cover of Wayne Cochran's "Last Kiss'' to those in the nosebleed seats behind the stage.
Texans have become accustomed to occupying the nosebleed seats at the Democratic National Convention, extras in a production that favors states that are solidly blue or liable to swing that way.
Sitting in nosebleed seats as a boy, he was dazzled by Patti LuPone vamping through the opening number I Get a Kick Out of You in Anything Goes for Lincoln Centre Theatre; he then promptly fell asleep.
Johnston summarises: "Dolly's voice has to be pristine from the front row to the nosebleed seats. This is one of the only rigs that I feel is up to that task."