there's no business like show business

The theater and those who work in it belong to a special sphere. This rhyming expression was the title of a song by Irving Berlin (in Annie Get Your Gun, 1946) and has virtually attained cliché status. See also show must go on.

See also: business, like, no, show

The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer

See also:

cocoa
I should cocoa
I should cocoa!
leerics
rhyme off
Malone
be on (one's) Pat Malone
have a Captain Cook
brassic
on (one's) Pat Malone

References in periodicals archive

Why, for example, did someone think Merman's fan base wanted to hear the then-71-year-old Broadway diva shout "There's No Business Like Show Business" over a 120 beats per minute track?

Disco wrecking ball: who recorded Ethel Merman with a disco beat? Could it be ... Satan?

词组	there's no business like show business
释义	there's no business like show business there's no business like show business The theater and those who work in it belong to a special sphere. This rhyming expression was the title of a song by Irving Berlin (in Annie Get Your Gun, 1946) and has virtually attained cliché status. See also show must go on. See also: business, like, no, show The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer See also: cocoa I should cocoa I should cocoa! leerics rhyme off Malone be on (one's) Pat Malone have a Captain Cook brassic on (one's) Pat Malone References in periodicals archive Why, for example, did someone think Merman's fan base wanted to hear the then-71-year-old Broadway diva shout "There's No Business Like Show Business" over a 120 beats per minute track? Disco wrecking ball: who recorded Ethel Merman with a disco beat? Could it be ... Satan?
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